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CONSTITUTION 
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NEW-YORK 

January, 1893 



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OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL 
WARS IN THE STATE OF NEW-YORK. 

Elected at the First General Court at Delmonico's, 
December 19, 1892. 

Governor: 
Frederic J. de Peyster. 

Deputy Governor: 
James M. Varnum. 

Lieutenant-Governor : 
T. J. Oakley Rhinelander. 

Treasurer : 

S. Victor Constant, 

1 20 Broadway. 

Secretary : 
HowLAND Pell, 
4 Warren Street. 

Deputy Secretary : 
R. Horace Gallatin. 

Historian : 
Thomas Ludlow Ogden. 

Chaplain : 
Rev. Maunsell Van Rensselaer. 

Registrar : 

Frederick E. Haight, 

22 Thomas Street. 



Gentlemen of the Council : 

Charles H. Murray, Chairman. 
Howard R. Bayne. Amory Sibley Carhart. 

T. Waln-Morgan Draper. Arthur M. Hatch. 
Philip L. Livingston. Charles B. Miller. 

Nathan G. Pond. Satterlee Swartwout. 



COMMITTEES OF THE SOCIETY OF 
COLONIAL WARS. 

Elected at the First General Court at Delmonico's^ 
December 19, 1892. 

Cojtwiittee on Membership : 

Frederic J. de Peyster, Chairman. 

T. J. Oakley Rhinelander, Deputy Chairman. 

Edward deP. Livingston. 

Philip L. Livingston. 

Charles H. Murray. 

Charles H. Pond. 

George R. Schieffelin. 

Committee on Historical Documents : 

Nathan G. Pond, Chairman. 

T. Waln-Morgan Draper, Deputy Chairman. 

Howard R. Bayne. 

Anthony James Bleecker. 

Frederick; E. Haight. 

Committee on Installation : 

Frederick Diodati Thompson, Chairman. 
Madison Grant, Deputy Chairman. 

Allston Gerry. 

Philip Rhinelander. 

Henry G. Trevor. 



OFFICERS OF THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL 

WARS IN THE STATE OF 

PENNSYLVANIA. 

Organized January 23, 1893. 

Governor : 
Hon. William Wayne. 

Deputy Governor : 
Edward Shippen, M. D., U. S. N. 

Lieutenant-Governor : 
James Mifflin. 

Treasurer : 
William Macpherson Hornor. 

Secretary : 
George Cuthbert Gillespie. 

Historian : 
William Fisher Lewis. 

Chaplain : 
Rev. C. Ellis Stevens, LL. D., D. C. L. 

Registrar : 
T. Hewson Bradford, M. D. 

Gentlemen of the Council : 

Thomas H. Montgomery. 
Thomas Chester Walbridge. 



CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION. 



State of New-York, 

City and County of New-York. 



ss. 



We, George M. Gunn, of Connecticut, and 
Charles H. Murray, T. Wain-Morgan Draper, 
Frederick E. Haight, Samuel Victor Constant 
and Howard R. Bayne, residents of the State 
of New-York, and Charles B. Miller and 
Edward C. Miller, of Orange, in the State of 
New Jersey, Nathan G. Pond and Satterlee 
Swartwout, of Connecticut, do hereby certify 
that we desire to form a Society, pursuant to 
the provisions of an act entitled, " An Act for 
the Incorporation of Societies or Clubs for 
certain lawful purposes," passed by the Legis- 
lature of the State of New- York, May 12, 
1875, and of the several acts extending and 
amending said act. 

That the corporate name of the said Society 
is to be 

" Society of Colonial Wars." 

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The objects of said Society are social and 
patriotic, and the said Society is to be formed 
for the purpose of perpetuating among their 
descendants the memory of those brave and 
hardy men who assisted in establishing the 
colonies of America, and periled their lives 
and interests in the 

French and Indian Wars, 

from December 20, 1620, to April 19, 1775, 
which, preceding the Revolutionary struggle, 
tended to form the glorious, free and indepen- 
dent United States of America; and for the 
collection and preservation of 

Historical Relics and Documents 

relating to that period. 

That the number of the managers who shall 
direct the concerns of said Society shall be 
nine. 

That the names of such managers for the 
first year are : Nathan G. Pond, Charles H. 
Murray, T. Wain-Morgan Draper, Satterlee 
Swartwout, Frederick E. Haight, Edward C. 
Miller, Samuel Victor Constant, Howard R. 
Bayne and Charles B. Miller. 

That the principal office of said Society is 
to be in the City of New-York, 
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In witness whereof, we have hereunto, and 
to the duplicate hereof, set our hands and 
affixed our seals this eighteenth day of August 
in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-two. 

In presence of 

Augusta Tileston 
as to H. R. Bayne, 

W. G. Scott. 



Nathan G. Pond, | 


L. S.] 


Chas. H. Murray, 


L. S.] 


T. Waln-Morgan Draper, 


L. S.] 


Satterlee Swartwout, 


'l. S.] 


Fred'k E. Haight, 


"l. S.] 


E. C. Miller, j 


L. S.] 


Samuel Victor Constant, 


^L. S,] 


Howard R. Bayne, | 


L. S.] 


Chas. B. Miller, 


L. S." 


George M. Gunn, | 


L. S.] 



State of New-York, 

City and County of New-York. 



ss. 



On this eighteenth day of August, in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
two, before me personally came Nathan G. 
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Pond, Charles H. Murray, T. Wain-Morgan 
Draper, Satterlee Swartwout, Frederick E. 
Haight, E. C. Miller and Samuel Victor 
Constant, known to me and to me known to 
be the individuals described in and who ex- 
ecuted the within instrument, and acknow- 
ledged to me that they executed the same 
for the purposes therein mentioned. 

Augusta Tileston, 
[l. s.] Notary Public, 

New- York County. 
No. 88. 

State of New-York, ) 

City and County of New-York. ) 

On this twentieth day of August, in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
two, before me personally came Howard R. 
Bayne, known to me and to me known to be 
one of the individuals described in and who 
executed the within instrument, and acknow- 
ledged to me that he executed the same for 
the purposes therein mentioned. 

Walter G. Scott, 
[l. s.] Notary Public, 

Queens County. 
Cert."filedinN.Y. Co. 
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State of New Hampshire, ) 
County of Belknap. ) 

On this twelfth day of September, in the 
year one thousand eight hundred and ninety- 
two, before me personally came Charles B. 
Miller, to me personally known and known 
to me to be one of the individuals described 
in and who executed the foregoing instrument, 
and he acknowledged to me that he executed 
the same for the use and purposes therein 
mentioned. 

William S. P. Sanderson, 
Justice of the Peace. 



State of New Hampshire, 
County of Belknap. 



I, E. P. Thompson, Clerk of the County 
of Belknap, and also Clerk of the Supreme 
Court for the said County, the same being 
a Court of Record, do hereby certify that 
William S. P. Sanderson, whose name is 
subscribed to the Certificate of the proof or 
acknowledgment of the annexed instrument 
and thereon written, was at the time of taking 
such proof or acknowledgment a Justice of 
the Peace in and for the County of Belknap, 
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dwelling in the said County, duly commis- 
sioned and sworn and duly authorized by the 
laws of the State of New Hampshire to take 
the same ; and further that I am well acquainted 
with the handwriting of such Justice and verily 
believe that the signature of the said Certificate 
of proof or acknowledgment is genuine. 

I further certify that said instrument is ex- 
ecuted and acknowledged according to the 
Laws of the State of New Hampshire. 

In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto 
set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court 
and County, the thirteenth day of September, 
in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
ninety-two. 

E. P. Thompson, 
[l. s.] Clerk of Supreme Court. 



State of Connecticut, ) 
County of New Haven. S 



Milford, September 24, A. D. 1892, Then 
and there before me, a Notary Public within 
and for the County and State aforesaid, duly 
commissioned and acting as such, personally 
appeared George M. Gunn, to me known and 
known to me to be a signer and sealer of the 



foregoing instrument, and who individually 
acknowledged the same to be his free act and 
deed before me. 

Witness my hand and seal of office on this 
24th day of September, A. D. 1892. 

John W. Fowler, 
[l. s.] Notary Public. 



State of Connecticut, ) County Clerk's 

> ss. 
County of New Haven. S ' Office. 



I, Edward A. Anketell, Clerk of the Su- 
perior Court, and ex officio of the County 
Court, the same being Courts of Record, and 
authorized by law to certify the records of 
said Court within and for New Haven County, 
and keeper of the seal thereof, and of the Com- 
mission of Justices of the Peace, and of the 
Commissioners of the Superior Court for said 
County, and of Notaries Public, hereby cer- 
tify : That John W. Fowler, Esquire, was on 
the 24th day of September, 1892, ever since 
hasJaeen and now is a Notary Public, within 
and for and residing in said County, duly 
appointed, commissioned and sworn, having 
full power and authority, by the laws of this 
State, to take the acknowledgment of deeds 
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and other instruments and to certify the same ; 
also to administer Oaths, to take affidavits and 
depositions out of Court, and to give certifi- 
cates thereof; that full faith and credit may 
and ought to be given to his official acts and 
attestations; that the signature to the instru- 
ment hereto annexed, purporting to be his, 
I believe to be his genuine official signature; 
that I am well acquainted with his hand- 
writing, and that said instrument is executed, 
acknowledged, and duly authenticated accord- 
ing to the laws of this State. 

In Testimony Whereof, I hereunto set my 
hand and affix the seal of said Court at New 
Haven, in said County and State, on this 8th 
day of October, A. D. 1892. 

[l. s.] Edward A. Anketell, Clerk. 

I hereby approve of the Incorporation of 
the " Society of Colonial Wars," and consent 
that the within Certificate be filed. 

New-York City, October 7th, 1892. 

(Signed) Edw? Patterson, J. S. C. 



CONSTITUTION. 

PREAMBLE. 

Whereas, there have never been just and 
proper celebrations commemorative of the 
martial events of colonial history happening 
from the landing of the Pilgrims, December 
20, 1620, to the battle of Lexington, April 
19' 1775; 

And whereas, our brave and dauntless 
forefathers crossed an unknown ocean to 
establish homes on the virgin soil of a new- 
continent, where all men could freely wor- 
ship according to the dictates of their con- 
sciences and secure immunity from religious 
persecution. And thereafter they and their 
descendants periled their lives and jeopar- 
dized their families and possessions in hostil- 
ities with the savage Indian in the founding 
of the Colonies of America, and sprang when 
needed to aid their mother country with 

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loyal patriotism, when in warfare with ano- 
ther nation. These glorious sires produced 
our heroic ancestors of the Revolution, who 
withstood the encroachments of a parent 
country, and accomplished the independence 
of the United States, and adopted those im- 
perishable declarations of American brother- 
hood and inalienable rights which are to-day 
the pride and glory of the untrammeled free- 
men of the whole world; 

Therefore^ the Society of Colonial Wars 
has been instituted by the descendants of 
these illustrious forefathers, to perpetuate the 
names, memory or deeds of those brave and 
courageous men, who, in military, naval or 
civil service, by their acts or counsel assisted 
in the establishment and continuance of the 
American Colonies; to collect and secure for 
preservation the manuscripts, rolls, records 
and other documents relating to that period ; 
to inspire among the members and their de- 
scendants the fraternal and patriotic spirit of 
their forefathers, and to inculcate in the com- 
munity respect and reverence for the acts and 
principles of those indomitable men, which 
made the freedom and unity of our country 
a possibility. 

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ARTICLE I. 

NAME OF THE SOCIETY. 



The Society shall be known by the name 
and title of the " Society of Colonial Wars." 



ARTICLE II. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Any male person above the age of twenty- 
one years, of good moral character and repu- 
tation, shall be eligible to membership in the 
Society of Colonial Wars, who is descended 
from an ancestor who fought in battle with 
the Indians under Colonial authority, or who 
served as a military, naval or marine officer, 
soldier, sailor, privateer or marine in the 
forces of the Colonies or under the banner of 
Great Britain in America, in the wars in 
which the said Colonies participated or en- 



rolled men, from the landing of the Pilgrims, 
December 20, 1620, to the battle of Lexing- 
ton, April 19, 1775; provided the claim of 
eligibility is satisfactorily based upon the ser- 
vice of an ancestor who performed duty as 
above, under Colonial sanction or British en- 
listment in America, either in garrison, in 
the field or on the sea; and descendants of 
such men who by their conspicuous acts, 
counsel, or contributions in civil or legisla- 
tive life assisted in perpetuating the Ameri- 
can Colonies; and provided, if there shall be 
no descendants of such eligible propositus, 
the right to become a member of this Society 
shall pass to the eldest male representative of 
such propositus, and in default of such col- 
lateral male line, to the eldest female branch. 

ARTICLE in. 

OFFICERS. 

The officers of the Society of Colonial 
Wars shall be a Governor, a Deputy Gover- 
nor, a Lieutenant-Governor, a Secretary, a 
Deputy Secretary, a Treasurer, a Registrar, 
a Historian, and a Chaplain, who shall, with the 
exception of the Deputy Secretary and Chap- 
lain, be ex-officio members of the Council. 
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ARTICLE IV. 

GENTLEMEN OF THE COUNCIL AND COMMITTEES. 

There shall be a Council consisting of 
nine members in addition to the ex-officio 
members, a Committee on Membership con- 
sisting of seven members, and a Committee 
on Collection of Historical Documents and 
Records consisting of five members. At the 
meeting of the Society on the third Monday 
of November in each year, the Society shall 
name fifteen members from whom a nominat- 
ing committee of nine shall be drawn by lot, 
and who, one month before the next General 
Court of the Society, shall report a list of 
names to be voted at the ensuing election to 
fill the vacancies in office and committees 
above described. Said names and the offices 
for which they are nominated shall be sent to 
members of the Society two weeks before the 
said election. 

ARTICLE V. 

ELECTION OF OFFICERS. 

The officers above named, together with 
the members of the Council and members 
of committees, shall be elected at the Gen- 
eral Court by ballot. A plurality vote shall 
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elect, and said officers and members of the 
Council and committees shall hold office 
for the period of one year, or until their suc- 
cessors shall be duly elected and qualified. 
Vacancies shall be filled for the residue of 
the current term at a meeting called on one 
month's notice. 

ARTICLE VI. 

ADMISSION OF MEMBERS. 

Every application for membership shall be 
made in writing, subscribed by the applicant, 
and approved by two members of the So- 
ciety over their signatures. Applications 
shall be accompanied by proof of eligibility, 
and such applications and proof shall be re- 
ferred to the Committee on Membership, 
who shall carefully investigate the same and 
report at the next meeting their recommen- 
dation thereon. Members shall be elected 
by vote at a Council of the Society duly 
called, but a negative vote of one in five of 
the ballots cast shall cause the rejection of 
such candidate. Payment of the initiation 
fee and dues, and subscription to the declara- 
tion contained in the Constitution of the So- 
ciety, shall be a prerequisite of membership. 
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ARTICLE VII. 

DECLARATION. 

Every member shall declare upon honor 
that he will use his best efforts to promote 
the purposes of the Society, and will observe 
the " Constitution " and " By-Laws " of the 
same ; and, if a citizen of the United States, 
shall declare that he will support the Consti- 
tution of the United States; such declara- 
tion shall be in writing, and subscribed by 
the member making it. 

ARTICLE VIIL 

PURPOSES. 

At every council the purposes of the So- 
ciety shall be considered, and the best mea- 
sures to promote them adopted. No party 
political question of the day, or existing con- 
troversial religious subject, shall be dis- 
cussed or considered at any meeting of the 
Society, 

ARTICLE IX. 

COMMEMORATIONS. 

It shall be a regulation that members of 
the Society, when practicable, shall hold a 
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celebration commemorative of some martial 
event in Colonial history, and dine together 
at least once in each year. 



ARTICLE X. 

SEAL. 

The seal shall be 



The Secretary shall be the Custodian of 
the Seal. 



ARTICLE XL 

INSIGNIA. 



The ribbon shall be of watered silk, one 
inch and a half in width, having a scarlet 
center, adjoining it on either side a white 
thread ^ of an inch wide, having on its 
outside edge a scarlet edge Yt of an inch 
wide. The insignia shall be worn by the 
members conspicuously, and only on the left 
breast, except that members who are or have 
been officers of the Society may wear the 
same suspended by the ribbon around the 

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neck, on all occasions when they shall as- 
semble as such for any stated purpose or 
celebration. The badge shall never be worn 
as an article of jewelry. The Treasurer of the 
Society shall issue the insignia to the mem- 
bers, and shall keep a record of all issued by 
him. Such insignia shall be returned to the 
Treasurer by any member who may resign or 
be expelled. No member shall receive more 
than one badge except to replace one lost, 
proof of which must be satisfactorily estab- 
lished, and the new one paid for. 

The undress insignia shall be a bow knot 
one fourth of an inch wide and three fourths 
of an inch long, of watered silk of scarlet color 
with white thread and scarlet edging, like 
the insignia ribbon. This decoration may 
be worn at all times in the left coat-lapel. 

ARTICLE XII. 

FORMATION OF OTHER SOCIETIES. 

For the purpose of forming a National So- 
ciety of the Society of Colonial Wars, this 
Society shall have power to authorize duly 
admitted members of the Society to form co- 
ordinate societies in their respective States, 
and to take such proceedings as may be ne- 



cessary for the due and legal incorporation 
or existence of the same. 

ARTICLE XIII. 

ALTERATION OR AMENDMENT. 

No alteration or amendment of the Con- 
stitution of this Society shall be made, unless 
notice shall have been given in writing, signed 
by the member proposing the same, at a pre- 
vious meeting. The Secretary shall then 
send a printed copy of the proposed amend- 
ment to the members of the Society, and state 
the court at which the same will be voted 
upon. No amendment shall be made un- 
less adopted by a two-thirds vote of the 
members present at the court voting upon 
the same. 



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BY-LAWS. 
SECTION I. 

INITIATION FEES, DUES. 

The initiation fee shall be five dollars; the 
annual dues, three dollars, payable on or be- 
fore the first of January of each year. The 
payment at one time of thirty dollars shall 
exempt the member so paying from annual 
dues. 

SECTION II. 

GOVERNOR. 

The Governor, or in his absence the De- 
puty Governor, or Lieutenant-Governor, or 
Chairman pro te^n., shall preside at all courts 
of the Society, and shall exercise the duties 
of a presiding officer, under parliamentary 
rules, subject to an appeal to the Society. 
The Governor shall be a member ex officio 
of all committees excepting the Nominating 
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Committee and Committee on Membership. 
He shall have power to convene the Coun- 
cil at his discretion, or upon the written re- 
quest of five members of the Society, or 
upon the like request of two members of the 
Council. 

SECTION III. 

SECRETARY. 

The Secretary shall conduct the general 
correspondence of the Society, and keep a 
record thereof He shall notify all elected 
candidates of their admission, and perform 
such other duties as the Society or his office 
may require. He shall have charge of the 
seal, certificates of incorporation, by-laws, 
historical and other documents and records 
of the Society other than those required to 
be deposited with the Registrar, and shall af- 
fix the seal to all properly authenticated cer- 
tificates of membership, and transmit the same 
to the members to whom they may be is- 
sued. He shall notify the Registrar of all 
admissions to membership. He shall certify 
all acts of the Society, and when required au- 
thenticate them under seal. He shall have 
charge of printing and publications issued 
by the Society. He shall give due notice 
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of the time and place of the holding of all 
courts of the Society and of the Council, and 
shall incorporate in said notice the names of 
all applicants for membership to be voted 
on at said Council, and shall be present at the 
same. He shall keep fair and accurate rec- 
ords of all the proceedings and orders of the 
Society and of the Council, and shall give 
notice to each officer who may be affected 
by them, of all votes, resolutions and pro- 
ceedings of the Society or the Council, and 
at the General Court, or oftener, shall report 
the names of those candidates who have been 
admitted to membership and those whose 
resignations have been accepted, and of 
those members who have been expelled for 
cause or for failure to substantiate claim of 
descent. In his absence from any meeting, 
the Deputy Secretary shall act, or a Secre- 
tary /r^? tern, may be designated therefor. 

SECTION IV. 

TREASURER. 

The Treasurer shall collect and keep the 
funds and securities of the Society; and as 
often as those funds shall amount to one hun- 
dred dollars, they shall be deposited in some 
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bank in the city of New- York which shall 
be designated by the Council, to the credit 
of the "Society of Colonial Wars," and such 
funds shall be drawn thence on the check of 
the Treasurer for the purposes of the Society 
only. Out of these funds he shall pay such 
sums only as may be ordered by the Society 
or the Council, or his office may require. He 
shall keep a true account of his receipts and 
payments, and at each annual meeting ren- 
der the same to the Society. 

For the faithful performance of his duty 
he may be required to give such security as 
the Society may deem proper. 



SECTION V. 

REGISTRAR. 

The Registrar shall receive from the Secre- 
tary and file all the proofs upon which mem- 
bership has been granted, with a list of all 
diplomas countersigned by him and all doc- 
uments which the Society may obtain ; and 
he, under direction of the Council, shall 
make copies of such papers as the owners 
may not be willing to leave in the keeping 
of the Society. 

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SECTION VI. 

HISTORIAN. 

The Historian shall keep a detailed record 
of all historical and commemorative celebra- 
tions of the Society, and he shall edit and pre- 
pare for publication such historical addresses, 
papers, and other documents as the Society 
may see fit to publish ; also a necrological list 
for each year, with biographies of deceased 
members. 

SECTION VII. 

CHAPLAIN. 

The Chaplain shall be an ordained Minis- 
ter of a Christian church, and it shall be his 
duty to officiate when called upon by the 
proper officers. 

SECTION VIII. 

THE COUNCIL. 

The Council shall have power to call spe- 
cial Courts of the Society, and arrange for 
celebrations by the Society. They shall have 
control and management of the affairs and 
funds of the Society. They shall perform such 
duties as shall be prescribed by the Constitu- 
tion and By-Laws, but they shall at no time be 
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required to take any action or contract any 
debt for which they shall be liable. They 
may accept the resignation of any member 
of the Society. They may meet as often as 
required, or at the call of the Governor. A 
majority shall be a quorum for the transac- 
tion of business ; at the General Court they 
shall submit to the Society a report of their 
proceedings during the past year. The Coun- 
cil shall have the power to drop from the 
roll the name of any member of the Society 
who shall be at least two years in arrears and 
shall fail on proper notice to pay the same 
within sixty days, and on being dropped his 
membership shall cease, but he may be re- 
stored to membership at any time by the 
Council upon his written application and the 
payment of all such arrears from the date 
when he was dropped to the date of his res- 
toration. The Council may suspend any offi- 
cer for cause, which must be reported to the 
Society and action taken on the same within 
thirty days. 

SECTION IX. 

VACANCIES AND TERMS OF OFFICE. 

Whenever an officer of this Society shall 
die, resign, or neglect to serve, or be sus- 

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pended, or be unable to perform his duties 
by reason of absence, sickness, or other cause, 
and whenever an office shall be vacant which 
the Society shall not have filled by an elec- 
tion, the Council shall have power to appoint 
a member to such office pro tempore^ who 
shall act in such capacity until the Society 
shall elect a member to the vacant office, or 
until the inability due to said cause shall 
cease; provided, however, that the office of 
Governor or Secretary shall not be filled by 
the Council when there shall be a Deputy or 
Lieutenant-Governor or Deputy Secretary to 
enter on these duties. The Council may 
supply vacancies among its members under 
the same conditions, and should any mem- 
ber other than an officer be absent from three 
consecutive Councils of the same, his place 
may be declared vacant by the Council and 
filled by appointment until an election of a 
successor. Subject to these provisions, all offi- 
cers and Gentlemen of the Council shall from 
the time of election continue in their respec- 
tive offices until the next General Court, or 
until their successors are chosen. 



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SECTION X. 

RESIGNATION. 

No resignation of any member shall be- 
come effective unless consented to by the 
Council. 

SECTION XL 

DISgUALIFICATION. 

No person who may be enrolled as a mem- 
ber of this Society shall be permitted to con- 
tinue in membership when his proofs of 
descent or eligibility shall be found to be 
defective. The Council, after thirty days' 
notice to such person to substantiate his 
claim, and upon his failure satisfactorily so 
to do, may require the Secretary to erase his 
name from the membership list. The said 
person shall have a right to appeal to the So- 
ciety at its next Court, or at the General 
Court. If the said appeal be sustained by a 
two-thirds vote of the members present at 
such Court, the said person's name shall be 
restored to said membership list. 



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SECTION XII. 

MEMBERSHIP. 

Members shall be elected by ballot at a 
Council of the Society, after report by the 
Membership Committee ; but a negative vote 
of one in five of the ballots cast shall exclude 
any candidate. 

SECTION XIII. 

COMMITTEE ON MEMBERSHIP. 

The Committee on Membership shall con- 
sist of seven members. They shall be chosen 
by ballot at the General Court of the Society, 
and shall be elected for the period of one 
year. Four members shall constitute a quo- 
rum, and a negative vote of three members 
shall cause an adverse report to the Council 
on the candidate's application. The proceed- 
ings of the Committee shall be secret and con- 
fidential, and a candidate who has been re- 
jected by the Council shall be ineligible for 
membership for a space of one year from 
date of rejection, except upon the unanimous 
vote of the Committee. 

The Committee shall have power to make 
By-Laws for its government and for other 
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purposes not inconsistent with the Constitu- 
tion or By-Laws of the Society. 

SECTION XIV. 

EXPULSION OR SUSPENSION. 

Any member for cause or conduct detrimen- 
tal or antagonistic to the interest or purposes 
of the Society, or for just cause, may be sus- 
pended or expelled from the Society. But no 
member shall be expelled or suspended unless 
written charges be presented against such 
member to the Council. The Council shall 
give reasonable notice of such charges, and 
afford such member reasonable opportunity to 
be heard and refute the same. The Council, 
after hearing such charges, may recommend 
to the Society the expulsion or suspension 
of such member, and if the recommendation 
of the Council be adopted by a majority 
vote of the members of the Society present 
at such Court, he shall be so expelled or sus- 
pended, and the insignia of said member 
shall thereupon be returned to the Treasurer 
of the Society, and his rights therein shall 
be extinguished or suspended. The Treasurer 
shall refund to the said member the amount 
paid for the said insignia. 
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SEC! ION XV. 

COURTS, 

The General Court of tlic Society shall be 
held on the anniversary of tlic Great Swamp 
Fight, D(;c(:mbcr 19, 167^. Business Courts 
shall be held on the third Mondays of Sep- 
tember, Nov(;mbcr, and the first Mondays 
of February, April, and Jun(.', 

Special Courts may be called by the Gov- 
ernor at such times as in lu's opinion the in- 
terests of tlie Society may demand, and must 
be called by the Secretary on the written re- 
quest of three members. All notice of meet- 
ings shall be sent out at least ten days before 
the date of meeting. 



SECTION XVI. 

SKRVICK OF NOTICE. 

It shall be the duty of every member to 
inform the Secretary by written communica- 
tion of his place of residence and of any 
change thereof, and of his post-office address. 
Service of any notice under the Constitution 
or By-Laws on any member, addressed to his 
last residence or post-ollice address, forwarded 
by mail, shall be sufficient service of notice. 
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SIXn ION XVM 

ri Kl II K AI I. (>!■ M/.MIil,RSniI'. 

Mrinljcrs may r*:f:f:i vc a ccrtifiratr oi rririri- 
Ixir.sfiip, wliif li shall he signed by the Crovcr- 
nor, Secretary, and Hcgistrar. 

SKC'I'ION XVIIl 

AI/II.F A'l'ION OI' AMKNOMLNT. 

No alt'ratioji or ai/irndin'nt of iIk: liy- 
Laws shall \)<: iiiarlr unless notice shall have 
been finly s;;ivrn in wiitni^^, signf:fi by tiif: 
iriember j;ro|;(j .in|^ the same, at a Court of the 
Society. 

The Secretary shall send a printf:d eoj^y of 
thf: proposed amendment lo fh*- mcmb'-rs of 
tfie Society, and state the ('ourt at which thf 
same will be voted uj;on. No ;imcndmcnt 
fjr alteratifjn sh;ill be mad'- imhss adopted by 
a two-thirds votf: of the members present at 
the Court votm^^ ujjon the same. 



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ADDRESSES 

DELIVERED AT THE DINNER 

December 19, 1892 



ADDRESS OF HIS EXCELLENCY 

GOVERNOR FREDERIC 

J. DE PEYSTER. 

I thank you most sincerely for the very 
great honor, unsoHcited and unexpected, that 
you have bestowed upon me. It is no easy 
matter to act as the first President of such 
an organization as this. It is a new field and 
fraught with many perils. While, therefore, 
I fully appreciate the very flattering manner 
with which you have treated me, I am only 
too conscious that " to err is human." I am 
sure to make many mistakes, and I take 
this my very earliest opportunity of asking 
in advance for your charity and your forbear- 
ance. It is at once my duty and my pleasant 
privilege to welcome you all to this the first 
banquet of the Society. Though incorpo- 
rated barely two months, we have to-night 
one hundred and five members, a success un- 
equaled in the history of our kindred socie- 

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ties. But it is the quality rather than the 
quantity of our members of which I am 
proud. We are animated by an earnest and 
noble purpose, and I see every reason to hope 
that our annual banquets, each surpassing its 
predecessor in splendor, will roll on, a proud, 
unbroken procession, far into the brilliant and 
uncounted future. I would gladly speak to 
you at length on the organization and Consti- 
tution of our Society, but it is impossible for 
me to tire you on these points, since I know 
little or nothing of them myself The Con- 
stitution and By-Laws I have never so much 
as seen. Others have dug the foundation 
broad and deep. Others have built this fair 
structure, and then, having spread the tables 
for the feast and summoned the guests, I 
have been invited to act as host. Though I 
know but little of the Constitution and By- 
Laws, I am fully aware of the true motive 
which gives life and energy to our organiza- 
tion. It is to do justice to those brave and 
good men who, daring all the perils of the 
broad and stormy Atlantic, in the frail barks 
of the seventeenth century, first planted civil- 
ization on our bleak coast. The very voyage 
was no mean achievement ; it occupied more 
weeks than it does days now. We are here 
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to do honor to the men who, having founded 
the little settlement at Plymouth, Salem, Bos- 
ton, and Jamestown, and here, on this island 
of Manhattan, our own New Amsterdam, were 
able to break their way through the pathless 
forests, to endure the untold rigors of Amer- 
ican winter and the burning heats of summer, 
to subdue the wily savage, the still more dan- 
gerous Frenchman, and change the wild forest 
land in a short hundred and fifty years into 
the wealthy and powerful provinces which 
struggled, and struggled successfully, against 
even the prodigious power of the British 
Crown. We intend to uphold American 
ideas, and above all to do honor to the men 
who built up the America of 1776. How is 
this work to be accomplished? By sitting 
still and deploring the evils of the day '? No; 
but by effort, by combined effort. This is 
the age of combination, and he succeeds best 
who can combine best. The time is past 
when some Achilles or Richard routed hosts 
by his shout. The day of the Paladin is 
gone forever. Napoleon was the greatest of 
the captains, because of all men that ever 
handled armies he knew best how to combine 
his legions and hurl them on the vital point. 
A naked savage can construct a birch-bark 
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canoe, but the mightiest genius could not 
build a Majestic or a Campania without a 
vast combination of capital, machinery, and 
labor. The work we have undertaken is no 
light matter. We must use the best means 
known to man if we would succeed. Com- 
bination is a means which every foreign race 
on this island has practised for years. Is there 
any reason why we Americans should not 
resort to this same system of combination, to 
keep alive the memory of our heroic dead? 
This organization of ours is, first of all, Amer- 
ican. All our aims are at once patriotic and 
kindly. We view with concern the neglect 
with which the great days and the controlling 
ideas of our fathers are treated. We aim to 
uphold the standard of Americanism. As to 
foreigners, our only desire is to make them 
know as we know, and love as we love, the 
founders and their immortal ideas. We de- 
sire to make all who settle in America true 
Americans. In this patriotic work we have 
been preceded by several societies of great 
merit. " The Cincinnati," the oldest of all, 
once looked upon with some apprehension as 
a menace to democratic institutions, is con- 
structed on lines so narrow as to be more an 
order of nobility than a society to advance 
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American ideas. That work, until within the 
last few years, was left almost wholly to the 
"Saint Nicholas Society" and to the "New 
England Society." Much as they differed 
and squabbled between themselves on the 
merits of their respective ancestors, they stood 
shoulder to shoulder in all that concerned 
American memories and American honor. 
For over fifty years " Saint Nicholas " and "New 
England " struggled on alone. They were the 
only real American societies. All honor for 
the great and good work they have done, and 
our best wishes for their continued success. 
It is the duty of every right-minded New- 
Yorker to join "Saint Nicholas," of every 
patriotic Yankee to join "New England." 
Our Society comes in to aid, not to rival, the 
time-honored champions. We come to do 
our share in justice to the heroes of a neglected 
portion of American history, much as the "Sons 
of the Revolution " devote their energies to 
the interesting period they celebrate, and in a 
spirit akin to that which animates the "Soci- 
ety of 1 8 1 2," the " Mexican Veterans," and the 
" Loyal Legion." We are all American So- 
cieties, and we stand shoulder to shoulder 
with "Saint Nicholas" and "New England" 
in the grand effort to hold up the standard of 

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the Fathers, and do some justice to their im- 
mortal memories. 

Certainly no Society has greater reason for 
existence than ours, and I call upon Mr. 
Charles H. Murray to tell the story. 



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ADDRESS OF HON. CHARLES. H. 
MURRAY. 

In Response to the Toast — "Society of 

Colonial Wars." Its Origin, 

Status, and Purposes. 

Your Excellency Governor de Peyster : 

I know you will appreciate my inability 
to make an after-dinner speech, and not ex- 
pect one from me. These palatable post- 
prandial dishes, cooked with reason, seasoned 
with wit, and garnished with humor, will be 
served later to the epicureans around this 
table by the eloquent chefs who are to fol- 
low me, and I can only give a brief, prosaic 
outline of the origin of the Society of Colonial 
Wars, its status, its purpose, and its objects. 

Sometimes a happy thought, a bright 
inspiration comes to one, and when it is suc- 
cessfully carried out is productive of un- 
dreamed results. Such was the conception 
of our Society, which will be one of the 
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leading fraternal, historical, and patriotic as- 
sociations of our country. And why should 
it not? We antedate even the Revolutionary 
War, deal with our formative period, com- 
memorate those first victorious struggles 
upon which the very existence of the colon- 
ies depended, and are incorporated to revere 
the independent spirit of those men whose 
teachings and example made American free- 
dom a possibility. 

The picture comes to us of the little white- 
winged vessels setting sail from the mother- 
countries, with their sturdy and fearless pas- 
sengers seeking religious liberty on the shores 
of a new hemisphere, tossed upon the billows 
of an untried ocean, with no chart save the 
lode-star of religious freedom, and no pilot 
except the courage of their own convictions. 
We imagine them cautiously feeling their 
way over the blue waters of the Atlantic 
with man at the masthead keeping bright 
lookout for the anticipated green shores of 
the continent which was to be their home, 
and which they were to people with a race 
which is to-day the pride and envy of the 
world. The lookout cries " Land ahead ! " 
and the bleak and sterile shores of North 
America break upon their view. They land, 
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undoubtedly, with apprehension on unex- 
plored territory ; but the boughs of the cen- 
tury-old trees wave them welcome, the gray 
rocks, the murmur of the surf upon the sand, 
give them hospitality, and the first permanent 
settlers stand upon what is now the free and 
independent United States of America. 

We also picture the same dauntless men, 
or their descendants, leaving the scene of 
their first embarkation and moving westward, 
frequently with weary footsteps, through the 
pathless woods. And again, with their pos- 
sessions in the slow-moving ox-cart, conquer- 
ing the primitive forest, leveling its giant 
monarchs, which had bid defiance to time and 
storm, but yielded to their sturdy strokes, 
making their little clearing, tilling their land, 
and building their stockaded fort as a haven 
of refuge and defense against the hostilities 
of the crafty aborigines. We read in history 
of the stealthy savage creeping upon the 
unsuspecting settler, the war-cry raised, the 
tomahawk uplifted, a scalp taken, or a pris- 
oner carried into captivity worse than death. 
The swift horseman or the panting runner, 
reaching the neighboring settlement, an- 
nounces the attack of the Indians. Then 
sounds the clanging of the alarm-bell, the 
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firing of the warning musket. The men, with 
fraternal love, rally in haste to help their neigh- 
bors in danger. At these times the colonists 
were all brothers, for in case of jeopardy the 
people of the world should be of kin. 

Once more the picture changes : the sail- 
ing vessel brings notice to the colonist that 
the two great nations of Europe have de- 
clared war. England and France have joined 
arms in mortal conflict. Our illustrious an- 
cestors, with loyal patriotism and love for 
mother-country, spring to its aid; they peril 
their lives, families, and possessions in the 
wage of battle; they muster and enroll vol- 
unteers and harass the French settlements. 
Their enemies retaliate, and enlist the savages 
in their cause. Then ensues a war in which 
the barbarities perpetrated are unequaled in 
the annals of the world, and in which the 
devotion and loyal sacrifices of our liberty- 
loving forefathers, for the cause of the parent- 
country, are unexcelled by any of the great 
heroes of cosmic history. 

It was the thought of these first struggles 
for liberty, the thought that these early colo- 
nial wars were the training-schools that pre- 
pared our ancestors for the successful effort 
that achieved American independence, the 
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thought that these pioneers were the builders 
of America whose descendants have extended 
our civilization from the Atlantic to the Pa- 
cific and caused the population of our coun- 
try with more than sixty millions of free and 
independent citizens, the recognition of 
these creators of America and the idea of 
making the liberty-loving sentiment of our 
indomitable ancestors the slogan of our 
Society, that led to its incorporation. 

It was for these purposes, and the know- 
ledge that the names and bravery of our com- 
batants in the colonial wars were unperpetu- 
ated by their descendants in any Society, 
that the speaker was led to suggest to Mr. 
Edward Trenchard the formation of a Society 
of French and Indian Wars. Mr. Trenchard 
spoke to S. Victor Constant, Esq., and found 
in him a ready and invaluable coadjutor. 
These gentlemen met and discussed the sub- 
ject. On August 18, 1892, there met Mr. 
Constant, Mr. Pond, Mr. Draper, Mr. Tren- 
chard, Mr. Swartout, Mr. Haight, and the 
speaker, and resolved to form the Society of 
Colonial Wars. Shortly afterward we were 
joined by Mr. Rowland Pell, our genial 
Secretary, whose inestimable services to the 
Society can never be adequately told. 
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The growth of this Society has been un- 
precedented. During the summer vacation, 
and owing to the distractments of the late 
poUtical campaign, nothing was done until 
the autumn. The certificate of incorpora- 
tion was not filed until October 18, 1892. 
The Society has been incorporated but two 
months, and yet we celebrate this first anni- 
versary dinner of the Great Swamp Fight 
with a membership of over a hundred. 

The next prosperous Society in point of 
rapid increase is the Society of the Sons of 
the Revolution. It was instituted February 
22, 1876, but not incorporated until May 3, 
1884; and yet, when I was proposed for 
membership in that Society in December, 
1884, after over six months of its existence, 
it had then less than forty members, and we 
in two months have over a hundred. 

The objects of the Society are stated in 
the preamble to the Constitution. 

The fraternal spirit of our ancestors should 
always be one of the dominant influences of 
this Society. The descendants of friends 
and kinsmen should be friends and kinsmen 
now, and after the lapse of time we come 
together and extend the right hand of help- 
ing fellowship to one another, and renew 
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those bonds of acquaintanceship and sympa- 
thy which existed between and bound our 
forefathers in the past, and prompted them 
to deeds and acts of assistance and generos- 
ity, — a community of interest which made 
them all brothers, as we should be, each en- 
deavoring to do unto his neighbor as he 
would his neighbor should do unto him. 

The historical work of this Society will 
be important. Sir Edward Arnold said the 
Americans were an uninteresting people, 
because they had no history. Unfortunately 
we must admit that the early chronicles of 
the colonies have not been published, and 
are practically unknown. But it will be the 
pride and pleasure of this Society to bring 
to light those buried colonial records, and 
show to the world that we have a history ex- 
tending over two and a half centuries, of 
which any people may be proud, abounding 
in events of more momentous importance to 
progressive development and civilized liberty 
than has occurred to any nation within a like 
period, and ancestors whose valorous deeds 
and nobility of character would illume the 
page of any history. We honor not simply 
the nobility of birth, but we honor more the 
nobility of deeds, and we reverence the 
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rugged integrity of those courageous men 
who, conscious of the invincible rectitude of 
their position, were led to defy the crowned 
or mitered potentate, to leave their birthland 
to found a new nation which would subdue 
a wilderness and enlighten the globe. 

The possibilities of this Society are un- 
limited. Already we have received applica- 
tions from three or four sister States to join 
our body and form a great national Society. 
It will grow beyond the confines of our bor- 
ders, and in the near future we will see 
Societies in Canada and in England. The 
Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, and kin- 
dred societies perpetuate the memory of wars 
with the parent-country. The Cincinnati 
existing in France has obliterated the remem- 
brance of our antagonistical colonial wars, and 
solidified the friendship and sympathy ex- 
isting between the two republics; and this 
Society, while zealously fostering and stimu- 
lating the independent, patriotic, and liberty- 
loving spirit of our God-fearing ancestors, 
will unite the mother with greater offspring 
in closer bonds of intercourse and friendship. 

We are not for historical research and social 
intercourse alone; nor simply to inculcate 
respect for the acts, deeds, or memory of our 
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forefathers, and to emulate their virtues; and 
not for self-congratulation that we had ances- 
tors who were the founders of America. But 
this Society has a more real active and patri- 
otic duty before it. The great influx of foreign 
immigration into our country for years threat- 
ens to smother and obliterate American pre- 
dominance, American influence, and Ameri- 
can ideas and institutions. Political parties 
have catered and truckled to the foreign ele- 
ment, and passed legislative acts for its bene- 
fit. It should be the endeavor of our Society 
to educate this element to the high dignity 
of American citizenship, or check the immi- 
gration like the coming of a pestilential in- 
vasion with its exitial consequence. A work 
of real importance, therefore, lies before us. 
It is the revivification of the American spirit. 
It is arousing the dormant American element, 
the congregating of Americans for public 
and national welfare, for the perpetuation 
of American institutions and the theories, 
ideas, and doctrines transmitted to us by our 
ancestors. In doing such a work we will 
make the name of our Society venerated by 
posterity, and its members worthy descen- 
dants of the creators of America. 



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ADDRESS OF NATHAN G. POND. 

In Response to the Toast — "The Great 
Swamp Fight of 1675." 

At the request of some of the members of 
our organization I have prepared the follow- 
ing paper, endeavoring to show as concisely 
as possible the causes that produced the event 
known as "King Philip's War" and to give 
some details of the fight of December 19, 
1675, called in the journals of that time the 
"Great Swamp Fight." 

The Rev. William Hubbard, who wrote an 
interesting history of that war, gives the 
whole credit (in its origin) to the devil. " For," 
he says, " the Devil, who was a murderer from 
the beginning, had so filled the heart of this 
savage miscreant [meaning Philip] with envy 
and malice against the English, that he was 
ready to break out into open war." And adds, 
"What can be imagined therefore besides the 
instigation of Satan, that, either envied at the 
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prosperity of the Church of God here seated; 
or else, fearing lest the power of the Lord 
Jesus that had overthrown his kingdom in 
other parts of the world, should do the like 
here, and so the stone taken out of the moun- 
tain without hands should become a great 
mountain itself and fill the whole earth, no 
cause of provocation being given by the 
English." 

Philip might have seen that the " small 
stone " (using Hubbard's simile) that his 
father failed to throw into the sea, was grow- 
ing into a mountain and threatened " to fill 
the whole earth," as far as an Indian knew of 
the earth. 

That the Indian looked upon the causes 
differently can be gathered from a paper in 
Captain Church's " History of the War," in 
which a few statements made from their point 
of view are found. 

Philip said : " They had been the first in 
doing good to the English, and the English 
first in doing wrong." And reminded them, 
" that when the English first came, his father 
was a great man and the English as a little 
child." When we remember the condition of 
the Pilgrims in the spring of 1621, it was a 
sickly child that they were compared to. 
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riiilip s;iiil he h;ul I'onstraiiiod other Tn- 
ilians Irom wronging; the Kn»;lisli; {\\c\ h;ul 
slu>\vi\l tluMii liow to pl;in( corn; the y luul 
Ut (liciu h;ivo our hiiiulrcd tinu's more l.uul 
(h.in now ht~ h.ui U>r his <nvn jhoj^Ic. And 
;i stnil\ o{ [\\c ni.ip i>l the successive grants 
slunveil wh.it "bites" tlie huni;rv land-lo\ ing' 
Saxon niade. 

At;.un, w hen t\\(Mit\ Indians testitied that an 
Knt;Ushinan liad done them wroiii;, it went lor 
notliin^: Inn when the uU'/s/ o\ the liulians 
testitied lor an KnL:,lisliman against the In- 
ilians, or their Wnit;, it was sullieicMit. Ai;'ani, 
when thc^v sold land to the Kn^lish, it was 
more than thev [{he Indians') had ai;reed to. 

The iiorses and the cattle i^t the EngHsh 
increased, and thev let them run at lar^e, and 
thev ate the Indians" corn. IhcN were not 
used to tences, and therelore h.id none : and 
the\ thought the Kn^hsh slunild keep their 
cattle on their own l.uuls. 

•• The Fn^lish now told them." savs Philip, 
'* that thev were too strong" lor them," and to that 
the Indi.ms replied, "Then do as we did to 
the V'.n^lish w hen we were too strong tor n ou." 
Thev must ha\ e had a glinuncring ot the 
Ciolden Kule. 

Init it was the same old storv ot civili/ation 

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versus barbarism, and the inferior must make 
way; yet it will resist. Many incidents 
helped to hasten the outbreak, too numerous to 
recall to-night ; but the hasty trial and execu- 
tion of the Indians charged with murdering 
the Christian Indian who had informed 
against Philip, was probably as irritating an 
event as any. 

The first stroke in the war was in June, at 
Swanzey, when eight Englishmen were killed. 
On the 24th Swanzey was destroyed; three 
other towns had the same fate, and the Eng- 
lish were fleeing for their lives, and the alarm 
soon spread to Boston and Plymouth. 

Captain Samuel Mosely soon had no 
picked men ready for the march. Captain 
Thomas Savage marched for Philip's camp 
at Mt. Hope, surprised him while dining, and 
Philip was soon fleeing for his life. The de- 
tails are too many for us to listen to to-night. 

To go back to an important event will 
show how Connecticut became involved. 
The event referred to was the planting of the 
acorn that has grown into the great tree 
known as the United States of America. 

In 1643 the Colonies of Massachusetts, 
Plymouth, Connecticut, and New Haven 
formed a league, under the style of "The 
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United Colonies of New England." Their ob- 
ject was mutual defense, and they therefore 
made their acts more efficient. Each Colony 
sent two members, and a three-fourths vote 
was necessary to compel action. Each com- 
missioner must be a member of the Church, 
and in good standing. Expenses for any war 
were to be charged to each Colony, in propor- 
tion to the number of males between the ages 
of 16 and 60. 

Connecticut at one time refused to do 
as the League directed, claiming that she 
had not been consulted in the passing of the 
act in question. At the commencement of 
this trouble she was at peace with all the 
Indians within her borders, and the war 
threatened to be a costly one, — it cost ;!^ioo,- 
000, which finally was paid, principal and in- 
terest : a cost beyond the entire personal value 
of the colonists, — but the Congress in which 
she had been represented during September 
called upon her for 315 men — her propor- 
tion. 

This Colony, having absorbed the weaker 
colony of New Haven, had already placed in 
the field 100 Englishmen and 70 Mohegans 
under Major Robert Treat, and they had 
proved of so great help near Springfield 
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that when the General Assembly met on the 
14th of October, Treat was appointed to 
command all of Connecticut's troops. 

Congress decided to raise 1000 men, and 
to attack the Narragansetts in their fort 
early in December. Massachusetts was to 
send 527 men; Plymouth 158, under Cap- 
tains Bradford and Gorham ; Connecticut 
exceeded its quota, and sent 300 Englishmen 
and 150 Mohegans and Pequots. 

On December 17 Treat had arrived at Pat- 
tyquamscot, and the next day the forces from 
Massachusetts and Plymouth joined with 
them; all to be under Josiah Winslow, the 
Governor of Plymouth Colony. 

The night of the i8th was cold and stormy; 
the army had no tents, and slept on the un- 
protected field some fifteen miles from the In- 
dians' fort. Early on the 19th they advanced. 
The Massachusetts troops were in the van. 
Captains Mosely and Davenport leading; 
Plymouth next, and Connecticut troops in 
the rear. It was one o'clock before they 
reached the swamp. 

The Indians were intrenched in the center 
of a large swamp on a dry knoll of some 
seven acres, and no entrance to their fort ex- 
cept over a tree that had been felled over the 
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water or ditch surrounding it. There was 
another tree that the Indians passed over, but 
a stockade or block-house commanded it, so 
that, as but one at a time could pass in, it 
was sure death, almost, to attempt it as an 
enemy. A dense hedge, a rod thick, shut in 
the entire knoll — a hedge that could only 
be got through by burning, and for that. Cap- 
tain Church says, " they had no time." 

The whole fortification was so well hidden 
that the English would not have discovered 
it had not an Indian named Peter, a prisoner 
in the hands of the English, told them its 
location. 

Hubbard says : " It seems that there was 
but one entrance into the fort, though the 
enemy found many ways to come out; but 
neither the English nor their guide well knew 
on which side the entrance lay, nor was it 
easy to have made another. Wherefore the 
good providence of Almighty God is the 
more to be acknowledged, who, as he led 
Israel some time by a pillar of fire, and a 
cloud of his presence, the right way through 
the Wilderness, so did he now direct our 
forces upon that side of the fort, where they 
might enter, though not without utmost 
danger and hazard." 

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It was determined that the fort must be 
attacked immediately. With more courage 
than prudence, the Massachusetts forces, with- 
out waiting for the rear-guard to come up, 
assaulted at once, following one by one their 
captain, over this exposed crossing-place, to 
be instantly killed, if they were able to enter 
the fort. Treat brought up his forces, and 
the Connecticut captain shared the same fate 
that had met the Massachusetts men, three of 
the captains being killed. Captain Marshall 
fell dead from the tree, and the story would 
have been a more disastrous one had not 
Captain Mosely, finding a weak spot in the 
rear, forced his way into the fort, opening fire 
on the backs of Indians defending the pass, 
who now fled from that position to take 
refuge in their wigwams. The English were 
soon in the center, and they were merciless. 
Three hundred warriors slain, many tried to 
escape and hide in the swamp, the wounded 
only to die from the cold and wet. Ninegret 
admitted that twenty-two Indian captains 
were killed, and Massachusetts alone lost in 
killed and wounded ninety-three. The Eng- 
lish showed but ten dead in the fort, having 
buried many of their own dead, and Hubbard 
states it struck great terror to the Indians to 

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see so few English dead and so many hundred 
of their own slain and wounded carcasses. 
Hubbard also finds cause for thanks : 

1. The meeting of Peter. 

2. Their being by a special providence di- 
rected to the only place they could effect an 
entrance. 

3. If they had entered the way left by the 
Indians for passage, they might have been cut 
off before they could reach the fortification. 

4. That they made the assault just the day 
they did; had they deferred but a day longer, 
they would have had so much snow that for 
weeksafter they could not have passed through, 
and then on a sudden there fell such a thaw 
that melted away both ice and snow. 

To give you the destruction of the fort, 
the Indians' stores and wigwams, the bitter 
retreat of the victor, the death of the wounded 
as they were carried on rude litters, the snow, 
the long march to reach shelter, would take 
too much time this evening; but our fore- 
fathers long remembered the Great Swamp 
Fight, for they had broke^i the strength of 
the Narraga7isetts. Many months passed 
before the father slept without his hand on a 
loaded musket, or the mother ceased to press 
her children without the thought that it was 
for the last time on earth. 
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ADDRESS BY 
COL. T. WALN-MORGAN DRAPER. 

In Response to the Toast — "The Indians 
OF America." 

Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen of the 
Society: 

I feel particularly grateful to have this 
opportunity of saying a good word in favor 
of the Indian, for I have had many instances 
of kindness, hospitality, and good cheer at 
the hands of the Indians. 

Whilst the saying generally attributed to 
General Sherman, that " the only good In- 
dians are the dead ones," is generally accepted 
as a great truth west of the Missouri River, 
still, those who have had the privilege of 
living amongst and knowing the Indians are 
aware that this saying is but partially true; for 
there are many good Indians, and there have 
been in the past a great many more, although it 
is a constant source of wonder to me that, con- 
sidering the circumstances, there should be 
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any good Indians either dead or alive. Pause 
for a moment, gentlemen, descendants of 
those who deprived the Indian of his country, 
and who enjoy it. How would we feel*? How, 
in fact, do you feel, to put it more pointedly, 
at the ever-increasing swarms of invaders 
passing into and settling upon our ancient 
heritage like a swarm of locusts, via Ellis 
Island *? You wish to stop this invasion, 
and a great and swelling chorus is beginning 
to rise on every side protesting against the 
foreign host arriving daily in our midst, and 
undoubtedly measures will be taken to check 
this wave of emigration: to-day this is possi- 
ble, because we are one great and united 
nation of millions. But come back with me, 
in fancy, to the past, and see scattered in the 
forests, amongst the mountains and on the 
plains of this vast continent, the red man, not 
united as one nation, but broken up in many 
warring tribes — a rope of sand easily broken 
by a united foe. Stand with me for a mo- 
ment where now Castle Garden rears its 
walls, and see Hendrick Hudson's ship first 
appear in the bay; or, go with me to the 
rugged coast of Massachusetts and watch 
the Mayflower cast anchor off Plymouth 
Rock. Imagine, if you can, the wonder and 
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fear of the Indian when he witnessed either 
of these events, and subsequently saw the 
white-winged ships in ever-increasing num- 
bers arrive with the invaders. At first the 
natives looked upon these men as spirits, as 
gods perhaps, as did the ancient Aztecs on 
the coming of Cortez, and received them as 
friends — aye, worshiped them; but soon 
learned that our ancestors were as human as 
they; that they were avaricious, grasping, 
tyrannical, and with many vices that the 
Indian had never known. 

Can we blame these simple people, when 
their illusions had been dispelled, for suspect- 
ing them *? And when the streams thus 
started flowed on and on with an ever-increas- 
ing tide of white people, who drove farther 
every year the rightful owners of the soil 
from their lands and homes, can we blame 
them for resistance *? Put yourselves in their 
place. Would you defend your homes and 
lands ? No answer is necessary. 

From then until to-day, and for some years 
to come, the Indian will still be driven ever 
backward, until at last he can be driven no 
farther, because what is left of the tribes will 
have followed the buffalo to the "happy 
hunting grounds " and extinction. 
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The North American Indian does not, 
like his Central or South American brother, 
amalgamate with the conquering race. For 
him, civilization means but one thing — an- 
nihila'tion; and that annihilation is the one 
great blot, the bar sinister on the escutcheon 
not alone of the United States, but on the 
arms of our colonial ancestors. 

To me has been given the great privilege 
to have lived amongst the Navajos, Utes, and 
Apaches of the Southwest, the Pueblos of 
New Mexico, and the Maya and Lacandon 
tribes of Central America, and I have always 
found, without exception, that the Indian if 
fairly treated as one would treat a white 
man, would be loyal and true in return. 

History teaches that the Indian is brave. 
He has always been ready to defend and 
fight for his native land ; always ready to die 
in the last ditch. If their methods have 
seemed cruel, fiendish even, can we blame 
them that in their desperation they have 
resorted to every device to check and drive 
back the swarms of the white invaders'? 
For, with few notable exceptions, these in- 
vaders have invariably broken faith with the 
natives, almost before the curling smoke 
from the pipes of peace has been lost in the 
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empyrean. The roll of honor on the Indians' 
side will more than counterbalance that on 
ours. 

It is a natural law that the weaker must 
give way to the strong. The survival of the 
fittest is one of nature's own rules, and we 
must hold nature responsible, in part, for 
these conditions; though that does not ex- 
cuse the white man's treatment of the Indian. 

They have been robbed of everything, and 
in return a slow national conscience has 
given — what ? Rations, blankets, and whisky, 
to their great undoing. 

We, the descendants of the invaders, the 
conquerors of this land, are here assembled to 
commemorate one of the greatest martial 
events in ancient Indian warfare. Our So- 
ciety makes it a requisite for membership 
that one must be descended from an ances- 
tor who fought in those old wars, where, if it 
was not the Indian he fought, he had the 
Indian for an ally. Therefore it would seem 
to me on this occasion, and at every recurring 
one, that it is particularly fitted that the In- 
dian should be remembered, and that we, as 
descendants of the brave and hardy sires who 
fought to leave us this glorious heritage, and 
of whom we are so proud, should, with honest 
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Anglo-Saxon chivalry, drink to our ancient 
foe and ally ; and the toast I give you is this : 
" The Indian." May his memory be radiated 
by his many brave deeds for home and coun- 
try, and may it, as the years go by and the 
purple mists of time gather, be unclouded 
and unmaligned by the generous inheritors 
of his patrimony. 



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LIST OF MEMBERS 



LIST OF MEMBERS. 

Baldwin, Nathan A., 

Seventh in descent from Major Robert Treat, Com- 
mander of forces at the Great Swamp Fight, and 
Governor of Connecticut. 

Bayne, Howard Randolph, 

Fourth in descent from Captain John Ashbey, who 
served in the Virginia line at Fort Loudon, Va., in 
the expedition of General Braddock against the 
French and Indians, and subsequently in various 
movements of the Virginia troops, especially at the 
battle of Point Pleasant on the Ohio, commanding 
a company. 

Beckwith, Leonard Forbes, 

Seventh in descent from Captain Jacob Blackwell ; 
French and Indian Wars. 

Berry, Gerald, 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Berry, Deputy 
Governor of New Jersey in 1672. 

Betts, Frederic H., 

Eighth in descent from William Leete, Governor of 

Connecticut, 1676—83. 
Eighth in descent from George Wyllys, Governor of 

Connecticut, 1642. 
Ninth in descent from John Haynes, Governor of 

Connecticut, 1639. 

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Sixth in descent from Colonel Andrew Ward, who 
served in the Louisburg Expedition, 1744-45. 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Taylor, Com- 
mander of the Hampshire troops; killed May 13, 
1704. 

BiBBY, Andrew A., 

Fifth in descent from Charles Ward Apthorpe, mem- 
ber of King's Council, 1763-75. 

Bleecker, Anthony James, 

Eighth in descent from Captain Jan Jansen Bleecker, 
who served in French and Indian Wars, 1689; also 
Treasurer of the city of Albany in 1686, Recorder 
in 1696, and Mayor in 1700, 

BowEN, Clarence Winthrop, 

Eighth in descent from Lieutenant Henry Bowen, 
1633-1724; Great Swamp Fight, King Philip's 
War, 1675. 

Ninth in descent from John Johnson, Roxbury, Mass., 
1630, "purveyor general of all ye armies." 

Eighth in descent from Captain Isaac Johnson, killed 
in Great Swamp Fight, December 19, 1675. 

Eighth in descent from Major Daniel Gookin, Massa- 
chusetts Colonial Troops. 

Bristow, Frank H. 

Ninth in descent from Major Robert Treat, Com- 
mander at the Great Swamp Fight, and Governor 
of Connecticut. 

Carhart, Amory Sibley, 

Seventh in descent from Thomas Carhart, Secretary 
to Colonel Thomas Dongan, Governor of the Colo- 
nies in 1683; Clerk of Richmond County, Staten 
Island, 1691. 

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Carnochan, Gouverneur Morris, 

Seventh in descent from Lewis Morris, Governor of 
New Jersey. 

Carpenter, James Oliver, 

Ninth in descent from William Carpenter, Deputy to 
Plymouth General Court, 1656. 

Clark, Henry Schieffelin, 

Eighth in descent from Arent Schuyler, Captain in the 
French and Indian Wars, 1693. 

Clarkson, Clermont Livingston, 

Seventh in descent from Matthew Clarkson, Secretary 
of New-York, 1689-1702; also Clerk of the Council. 

Clarkson, David Augustus, 

Seventh in descent from Matthew Clarkson, Secretary 
of New-York, 1689-1702 ; also Clerk of the Council. 

Collins, Holdridge Ozro, 

Seventh in descent from Jonathan Beebe, who was 
First Lieutenant 7th Company 2d Connecticut 
Regiment, 1759. 

Constant, Samuel Victor, 

Eighth in descent from John Tuttle of Ipswich, Mass., 

who was Representative in 1644. 
Eighth in descent from Nicholas Noyes of Newbury, 

Mass., who was Representative in 1660, 1679, and 

1680. 
Seventh in descent from Lieutenant James Smith of 

Newbury, Mass., who served under Sir William 

Phipps in the expedition against Canada in 1690. 

Constantine, Richard Buell, 

Ninth in descent from Roger Williams, Captain of 
Train Band at Providence during King Philip's 
War. . 

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Coon, Charles Edward, 

Fourth in descent from Captain Gideon Brownson of 
Vermont; served in Warner's Regiment of "Green 
Mountain Boys" in Canada, 1775; was a soldier in 
Frenchi and Indian Wars, 

Dana, Richard Starr, 

Seventh in descent from Josiah Keith, soldier in the 
French and Indian Wars. 

Davenport, Richard Graham, Lieutenant, U. S. N., 

Seventh in descent from Colonel George Brent, 1641 — 
1704; Colonel Stafford County, Virginia Regiment, 
Bacon's Rebellion, 1676. 

DE Lancey, Edward Floyd, 

Fourth in descent from James de Lancey, Chief Justice 
and Governor of the Province of New-York. 

de Peyster, Frederic J., 

Sixth in descent from Abraham de Peyster, Mayor of 
New-York, 1691 to 1695 ; Colonel of the New- 
York Regiment of Foot, 1695 ; Judge of the Supreme 
Court, Chief Justice and member of the Royal 
Council, 1698; Acting Governor, 1700; Treasurer 
of the province of New-York and New Jersey from 
1706 to 1721. 

Downes, Anson Treat, 

Fourth in descent from Captain Ebenezer Downs, who 
served at Fort William Henry in 1755. 

Seventh in descent from Governor Robert Treat of 
Connecticut. 

Downes, Stancliff Bezan, 

Fifth in descent from Captain Ebenezer Downs, who 
served at Fort William Henry in 1755. 

Eighth in descent from Governor Robert Treat of 
Connecticut. 

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Draper, Thomas Waln-Morgan, 

Eighth in descent from James Draper, a soldier in 
King Philip's War; Captain of the Trained Bands 
of Dedham, Mass., who participated in all of the 
Indian wars subsequent to King Philip's War. See 
" iVIassachusetts Archives." 

Seventh in descent from Joshua Child, who served in 
Captain Holbrooke's Company in 1676 against the 
Indians. 

DuRAND, W. Cecil, 

Seventh in descent from Major Robert Treat, who led 
Connecticut soldiers in Great Swamp Fight; Gov- 
ernor of Connecticut. 

Ford, George Hare, 

Eighth in descent from Sergeant Thomas Tibbals, who 
served in the Pequot War. 

Fowler, Franklin Hamilton, 

Seventh in descent from Sir Charles Hobby, who served 
in Expedition against Port Royal, 1710. 

Fowler, William Miles, 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Beard, who 
served under Major Robert Treat at the Great 
Swamp Fight. 

Gallatin, Frederic, 

Fourth in descent from Captain James Nicholson, of 
vessel from Maryland; at capture of Havana from 
Spaniards in 1762. 

Gallatin, R. Horace, 

Fifth in descent from Captain James Nicholson, who 
commanded a vessel at Siege of Havana, 1762. 

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Gardiner, David, 

Ninth in descent from Lion Gardiner, who commanded 

Saybrook Fort during Pequot War. 
Seventh in descent from Roger Wolcott, Major-Gen- 

eral, Siege of Louisburg ; Governor of Connecticut. 

Gardiner, Robert Alexander, 

Seventh in descent from Roger Wolcott, Major-Gen- 
eral. Siege of Louisburg; Governor of Connecticut. 

Ninth in descent from Lion Gardiner, who commanded 
Saybrook Fort during Pequot War. 

Gerry, Allston, 

Seventh in descent from Captain Samuel Brocklebank 
of Rowley, Mass., who was killed during King 
Philip's War at Sudbury, April 12, 1676. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Joseph Jewett, who 
served in King Philip's War under Captain Samuel 
Brocklebank. 

Samuel Brocklebank was a Lieutenant in Rowlev Com- 
panv, 1656; was appointed by the Court, Captain 
in 1673. 

Grant, De Forest, 

Eighth in descent from Major Robert Treat, who led 
Connecticut forces in Great Swamp Fight ; Gov- 
ernor of Connecticut. 

Grant, Madison, 

Eighth in descent from Major Robert Treat, Com- 
mander of the Connecticut troops at the Great 
Swamp Fight, and Governor of Connecticut. 

GuNN, George Miles, 

Eighth in descent from Major Robert Treat, Com- 
mander of forces at the Great Swamp Fight, and 
Governor of Connecticut. 

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Haight, Abner Sherman, 

Eighth in descent from Hon. Phillip Sherman, first 
Secretary of the Providence Plantations. 

Haight, Frederick Everest, 

Ninth in descent from Lieutenant John Lynian, Com- 
mander of the troops in the Falls Fight, King Phil- 
ip's War, May l8, 1676. 

Ninth in descent from Jonathan Gilbert, a private in 
Pequot War. 

Tenth in descent from John Hall, a private in Pequot 
War. 

Halsey, Harlan Page, 

Ninth in descent from Edmond Tapp, appointed Judge 
of Civil and Criminal Court, 1639, settlement of 
Milford, Conn.; subsequently, under union of 
Milford, New Haven, Stamford, Guilford, and 
Southhold, L. I., was elected one of the first two 
magistrates, 1644. 

Eighth in descent from Major Robert Treat, Com- 
mander at Great Swamp Fight, also Major com- 
manding Connecticut troops at battles of Hadlev 
and Springfield; subsequently Deputy Governor of 
Connecticut, 1676—86; appointed Governor, 1686 ; 
resigned, 1701, because of old age. 

Seventh in descent from Jasper Crane, Member of As- 
sembly Colony of Connecticut, 1700-1701. 

Seventh in descent from Thoma- Halsey, Member of 
Connecticut Assembly, and original patentee of 
Southampton, Long Island ; active in drafting juris- 
prudence of Connecticut. 

Halsey, Henry Augustus, 

Tenth in descent from Edmond Tapp, appointed Judge 
of Civil and Criminal Court, 1639, settlement of Mil- 
ford, Conn. ; subsequently, under union of Milford, 
New Haven, Stamford, Guilford, and Southhold, L. 
L, was elected one of the two first magistrates, 1644. 
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Ninth in descent from Major Robert Treat, Comman- 
der at Great Swamp Fight, also Major commanding 
Connecticut troops at battles of Hadley and Spring- 
field ; subsequently Deputy Governor of Connecti- 
cut, 1676—86; appointed Governor, 1686; re- 
signed, 1701, because of old age. 

Ninth in descent from Thomas Halsey, Member of 
Connecticut Assembly, and original patentee of 
Southampton, Long Island ; active in drafting juris- 
prudence of Connecticut. 

Eighth in descent from Jasper Crane, Member of 
Assembly Colony of Connecticut, 1700—1701. 

Harriman, Francis Cottenet, 

Seventh in descent from Arent Schuyler, Captain of 
company against Mohawk Indians, 1693. 

Hatch, Arthur Melvin, 

Fifth in descent from Rev. Nathanael Taylor, Chap- 
lain of Colonel Nathan Whiting's Regiment at Ti- 
conderoga and Crown Point, 1759. 

Henry, John F., Jr., 

Seventh in descent from Captain Isaac Gale, who served 
in the expedition for relief of Fort William Henry 
in 1757. 

Hillhouse, Francis, 

Eighth in descent from Captain John Mason, Pequot 
War. 

Hoadley, James Henry, 

Fourth in descent from Elihu Tudor, M. D., who 
served in the campaign against Canada, 1755, under 
Wolfe in 1759, ^""^ ^" '■^^ expedition against Ha- 
vana, 1762. 

Third in descent from Andrew Hillyer, who served 
under Lord Amherst in 1760, and in the expedition 
against Havana, 1762. 

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Howell, Henry Wilson, Jr., 

Seventh in descent from Jacob Howell, Delegate to 

Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania. 
Eighth in descent from Randal Vernon, Member of 

Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1687. 

Hyatt, Frank Stanley, 

Seventh in descent from Thomas Hyatt, who served 
in King Philip's War. 

Isham, Charles, 

Seventh in descent from Jacob Burhans, a soldier in 
the Netherlandish service. Company of Peter Stuy- 
vesant, at Esopus, 1660, 

Fifth in descent from Captain John Isham, 1742— 
1828; a volunteer in Captain Edward Barnard's 
Company, Connecticut Colonial troops, French 
War, 1755 ; Expedition to the West Indies, 1759. 

Kip, William V. B., 

Tenth in descent from Hendrick Kype, appointed by 
Governor Stuyvesant one of the Council of Nine 
Men. 

Kitchen, John Cornelius Duryea, 

Eighth in descent from Abraham Jorisz BrinckerhofF, 
Magistrate at Flushing, L. I., in 1673. 

Seventh in descent from Joris Rapelje, 1675-1741, 
Lieutenant of His Majesty's forces, Queens County. 

Lawrence, Abraham Riker, Judge New-York Supreme 
Court, 

Sixth in descent from Major Thomas Lawrence, Com- 
mander of Queens County forces, 1689. 

Sixth in descent from General Nathaniel Woodhull, 
who served under Lord Abercrombie, 1 754, and Lord 
Amherst, in the expeditions against Canada in 1759. 

Seventh in descent from Colonel William Smith, Com- 
mander of Suffolk forces in 1693. 

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Livingston, Edward de Peyster, 

Fifth in descent from Robert R. Livingston, Judge 
Supreme Court, Province of New-York. 

Livingston, Philip L., 

Seventh in descent from Robert Livingston, Colonial 
Secretary of New- York. 

McAllister, Heyward Hall, 

Seventh in descent from Dr. Joiin Cutler, Surgeon in 
King Philip's War. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Thomas Heyward, 
Captain in provincial service ; commanded at Fort 
Johnson. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Matthew Dill, com- 
missioned Captain in Colonel Benjamin Chambers's 
regiment, 1743. 

Marshall, Howard, 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Berrv, Deputy 
and Acting Governor of New Jersey, under Philip 
Carteret. 

Merwin, Augustus White, 

Eighth in descent from Major Robert Treat; led 
Connecticut forces in Great Swamp Fight; Gov- 
ernor of Connecticut, and /le/d its charter against 
the "bandying threats" of Sir Edmund Andros, 
October, 1687. 

Miller, Edward Clarence, 

Ninth in descent from Thomas Huckins, Barnstable, 
Mass.; Ensign in 1639; Commissary General on 
Governor Bradford's Staff, in King Philip's War, 
1675- 

Ninth in descent from John Chipman, Representative 
of Massachusetts, 1663-66, 1668-69. 

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Eighth in descent from Richard Williams of Taun- 
ton, Mass.; Representative 1646-48 and 1650. 

Eighth in descent from Lieutenant George Macy of 
Taunton, Mass., Representative 1672— 78, who was 
Lieutenant in King Philip's War. 

Eighth in descent from Governor Thomas Hinckley 
of Barnstable, Mass., 1616-1706; was present at 
Great Swamp Fight; Deputy Governor, 1680; 
Governor, 1681-92. 

Miller, Charles Benjamin, 

Ninth in descent from Thomas Huckins, Barnstable, 
Mass.; Ensign in 1639; Commissary General on 
Governor Bradford's Staff, in King Philip's War, 
1675. 

Ninth in descent from John Chipman ; Representa- 
tive of Massachusetts, 1663-66, 1668-69. 

Eighth in descent from Richard Williams of Taunton, 
Mass.; Representative, 1646-48 and 1650. 

Eighth in descent from Lieutenant George Macy of 
Taunton, Mass., Representative 1672—78, who was 
Lieutenant in King Philip's War. 

Eighth in descent from Governor Thomas Hinckley 
of Barnstable, Mass., 1616—1706; was present at 
Great Swamp Fight; Deputy Governor, 1680; 
Governor, 1681—92. 

Mitchell, William Anderson, M. D., 

Ninth in descent from Matthew Mitchell, who served 

under Gardner in the Pequot War. 
Sixth in descent from Colonel James Minot, 1694— 

1759; of Concord, Mass., 1756. 

Morgan, Appleton, 

Fifth in descent from Joseph Morgan of Brimfield, 
Mass; served in campaign against Louisburg, 1758. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Samuel Appleton of 
Ipswich, Mass., commanding Massachusetts Bay 
troops in King Philip's War. 

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Murray, Charles H., 

Eighth in descent from General Robert Sedgwick; 

commanded expedition against Acadia and Jamaica; 

Governor of Jamaica. 
Eighth in descent from Dr. Thomas Starr, Surgeon of 

forces sent against the Pequots. 
Eighth in descent from Rev. Samuel Stone, Chaplain 

under Major Mason, Pequot War. 
Eighth in descent from Captain George Dennison, who 

served in King Philip's War. 
Eighth in descent from Lieutenant John Hitchcock; 

served in Falls Fight and King Philip's War. 
Ninth in descent from Lieutenant William Allis, slain 

in Falls Fight, King Philip's War. 

Seventh in descent from Sergeant John Dickinson, slain 
in Falls Fight, King Philip's War. 

Ninth in descent from Samuel Belden, soldier in Cap- 
tain Wm. Turner's Co., Falls Fight. 

Eighth in descent from Samuel Ball, soldier in Cap- 
tain Wm. Turner's Co., Falls Fight. 

Eighth in descent from William Scott, soldier in Cap- 
tain Wm. Turner's Co., Falls Fight. 

Ninth in descent from Thomas Wells, soldier in Cap- 
tain Wm. Turner's Co., Falls Fight. 

Sixth in descent from Jedediah Strong, Jr., slain by 
Indians in Queen Anne's War. 

Myer, Isaac, 

Seventh in descent from Sergeant Edward Riggs, who 
served in Pequot War. 

O'CoNOR, John Christopher, 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Miles, Lieu- 
tenant in King Philip's War. 

Ogden, Thomas Ludlow, 

Eighth in descent from John Ogden, Magistrate of the 
Colony of Connecticut, 1656. 

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Eighth in descent from Philip Pietersen Schuyler. 
Ninth in descent from the Patroon Killaen Van 

Renssalaer. 
Eighth in descent from Judge Robert Livingston. 
Eighth in descent from Oliver Stephan Van Cortlandt. 
Seventh in descent from Jacob Leisler, Governor of 

New-York. 
Eighth in descent from William Beekman. 

Olney, George Washington, 

Fifth in descent from Corporal Ezekiel Olds of Cap- 
tain Jabez Upham's Co. at the relief of Fort Wil- 
liam Henry, 1757. 

Pell, Rowland, 

Tenth in descent by representation from Surgeon 
Thomas Pell, who served in the Pequot War. 

Ninth in descent from Walter Clarke, Governor of 
Rhode Island; King Philip's War. 

Ninth in descent from Robert Hazard, member Gene- 
ral Assembly, Rhode Island, 1664. 

Ninth in descent from Thomas Hunt, Deputy from 
Westchester Co. to the New-York Assembly, 1683. 

Eight in descent from Sir John Pell, second Lord of 
the Manor of Pelham, N. Y.; member New-York 
Provincial Assembly, 1691—95; Captain of Horse, 
Provincial Forces, New-York, May 30, 1684; 
Major, 1692. 

Eighth in descent from Zoeth Howland, killed by In- 
dians in King Philip's War. 

Eighth in descent from Colonel Thomas Willett, Com- 
mander of Queens County Militia, 1683-89; 
Member of Governor's Council. 

Eighth in descent from Captain William Lawrence, 
Queens County Militia, 1665-80. 

Seventh in descent from William Robinson, Deputy 
Governor Rhode Island, 1745—48. 

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Pell, John H., 

Fourth in descent from John Pell, Captain of the Pri- 
vateer J/ary, 1756. 

Pond, Charles Hobby, 

Eighth in descent from Sir Charles Hobby, who served 
as Colonel of Massachusetts Regiment, underGeneral 
Nicholson, in the Port Royal Expedition, 1710; was 
knighted July 9, 1705, "for good service done the 
Crown in New England." 

Sixth in descent from Captain Hercules Mooney, who 
served in Colonel Messervey's Regiment at the siege 
of Fort William Henry. 

Pond, Nathan Gillette, 

Seventh in descen"- from Sir Charles Hobby, who served 
as Colonel of Massachusetts Regiment, underGeneral 
Nicholson, in the Port Royal Expedition, 1710 ; 
was knighted July 9, 1705, "for good service done 
the Crown in New England." 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Miles, who 
served under Major Robert Treat as seventh in rank 
in the Great Swamp Fight, December 19, 1675. 

Pond, Winthrop, 

Eighth in descent from Sir Charles Hobby, who served 
as Colonel of Massachusetts Regiment, under Gene- 
ral Nicholson, in the Port Royal Expedition, 1710; 
was knighted July 9, 1705, " for good service done 
the Crown in New England." 

Reed, Henry Bidlack, M. D., 

Seventh in descent from Captain Jonathan Alden, who 

served in King Philip's War. 
Ninth in descent from Captain Daniel Brodhead, 

Royal Army, 1664, afterward Commander-in-Chief 

offerees at Kingston, 1665. 



Remington, Cyrus K., 

Eighth in descent from John Remington, 1637, Lieu- 
tenant, of Rowley, Mass., in Pequot War. 

Seventh in descent from Laimcelot Granger of Suffield, 
Conn. ; upon the breaking out of King Philip's War, 
went with inhabitants of Suffield to Westfield, Mass., 
and was severely wounded in attack on that town in 
September. 

Fourth in descent from Abner Granger, Quartermaster 
Sergeant 1st Connecticut Colonial Troops, 1758, 
French and Indian Wars. 

Rhinelander, Philip, 

Seventh in descent from Hendrick Cuyler, Major of 
the Albany Troop, French and Indian Wars, 1689. 

Sixth in descent from John Cruger, Mayor of New- 
York, 1739-44. 

Rhinelander, T. J. Oakley, 

Seventh in descent from Hendrick Cuyler, Major of 
the Albany Troop, French and Indian Wars, 1689. 

Sixth in descent from John Cruger, Mayor of New- 
York, 1739-44. 

RiKER, John Jackson, 

Eighth in descent from Major Thomas Lawrence, of 
Queens County, L. I., forces, 1689. 

RoBBiNS, Howard Sumner, 

Eighth in descent from Lieutenant Jonathan Robbins, 
who served in Captain Lovewell's command, and 
was killed in the battle at Freyeburg, Me., 1725. 

Ninth in descent from Samuel Robbins; private in 
Captain Thomas Prentice's Company, King Philip's 
War. 

Ruggles, James Francis, 

Tenth in descent from Thomas Dudley, Major-Gen- 
eral and Governor of Massachusetts. 

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Eighth in descent from William Leete, Governor of 
Connecticut, 1676-83. 

SCHIEFFELIN, EuGENE, 

Seventh in descent from Captain William Lawrence, 
Magistrate under Dutch at Flushing, L. 1., and held 
various military commissions under the English. 

SCHIEFFELIN, GeORGE RiCHARD, 

Seventh in descent from William Lawrence, magistrate 
under Dutch and English, and Captain Queens 
County Militia, 1665-1680. 

SCHIEFFELIN, ScHUYLER, 

Eighth in descent from Arent Schuyler, Captain in the 
French and Indian Wars, 1693. 

SCHIEFFELIN, WiLLIAM JaY, 

Ninth in descent from Captain William Lawrence, 
Queens County, L. L, Militia, 1665-80. 

Eighth in descent from Hon. John Jay, Member of 
the Provincial Congress in 1774. 

Seaman, Louis Livingston, M. D., 

Eighth in descent from Captain John Seamans, who 
served in the Indian Wars, 1675. 

Sears, Walter J., Lieutenant, U. S. N., 

Eighth in descent from Lieutenant Silas Sears of 
Barnstable, Mass., 1682. 

Tenth in descent from Richard Sares, member Yar- 
mouth Company (Plymouth Colony), and was Rep- 
resentative to General Court. 

Ninth in descent from Silas Sears, commissioned En- 
sign Oct. 28, 1681 ; promoted Lieutenant July 7, 
1682, Barnstable Company. 
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SWARTWOUT, SaTTERLEE, 

Seventh in descent from RoelofF Swartvvout, Mem- 
ber of Governor Leisler's Council, 1689, during 
war with France. 

Fifth in descent from Lieutenant Benedict Satterlee, 
1714-1778, who served in French and Indian 
Wars; commissioned Ensign, March 8, 1758, and 
Lieutenant, March, 1759. 

Swords, Henry Cotheal, 

Fourth in descent from Lieutenant Thomas Swords, 
55th Regiment of Foot, British Army ; Fort George, 
Albany, and New-York city. 

Thompson, Frederick Diodati, 

Sixth in descent from Roger Wolcott, Governor of 
Connecticut, and Major-General at Siege of Louis- 
burg. 

Ninth in descent from Lion Gardner, Commander Say- 
brook Fort, Pequot War. 

ToMLiNSON, Charles Abraham, 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Beard, who 
served under Major Robert Treat at the Great 
Swamp Fight. 

TowNSEND, James Hill, 

Seventh in descent from John Wickes, one of the Com- 
missioners appointed by the Crown to treat with the 
Narragansett Tribe of Indians ; he was a member 
of the General Assembly of Rhode Island, 1675; 
killed in King Philip's War. 

Trenchard, Edward, 

Tenth in descent from Hon. William Thomas, 1573— 
1651; Assistant Deputy to Governor Plymouth 
Colony, 1642-43. 

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Ninth in descent from Captain Nathaniel Thomas, 

1610—74; Marshfield Company, Pequot War; 

service, 1637—53; Representative, 1667— 68. 
Ninth in descent from Hon. James Sands, 1st, 1622— 

1695; Deputy from Block Island, 1648. 
Eighth in descent from Captain John Sands, 1st, 1649— 

1712; New Shoreham Company, Pequot War; 

Representative, 1678—90. 
Eighth in descent from Captain Symon Ray, 2d, 1635— 

1737; New Shoreham Company; French attack on 

Block Island, 1705; Deputy from New Shoreham, 

1708. 

Fifth in descent from Surgeon Richard Ayscough, 

1742—1800, British Army; colonial service, French 

and Indian Wars, 1755. 
Fifth in descent from Hon. George Trenchard, 1720— 

1788, King's Attorney and Attorney-General for 

West Jersey, 1769—75. 

Trevor, Henry Graff, 

Seventh in descent from Leonard Lispenard, delegate 
to convention to obtain repeal of obnoxious laws; 
Member of Colonial Assembly. 

Trowbridge, Charles Hotchkiss, 

Eighth in descent from Lieutenant Thomas Trowbridge, 
New Haven Troop, under Captain William Russell, 
King Philip's War. 

Tufts, Walter Brownell, 

Seventh in descent from Governor Simon Bradstreet. 
Eighth in descent from Thomas Dudley, Governor 
and Major-General of Commonwealth of Mass. 

Valentine, Abraham Bates, 

Seventh in descent from Colonel Benjamin Valentine, 

Dragoon in Colonial service. 
Ninth in descent from Thomas Cornell, who served 

with Governor Kieft against Indians. 



Van Rensselaer, Cortlandt Schuyler, 

Ninth in descent from Killian Van Rensselaer. 
Eighth in descent from Jeremias Van Rensselaer. 
Seventh in descent from Hendrick Van Rensselaer. 
Sixth in descent from Johnne Van Rensselaer. 
All officers in the service of the Colonies during the 
Colonial Wars. 

Van Rensselaer, Rev. Maunsell, 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Sanders Glen 
of Schenectady; in French and Indian Wars, 1689; 
Treaty of Utrecht. 

Varnum, James M., 

Eighth in descent from Samuel Varnum, soldier, King 
Philip's War. 

Seventh in descent from Joseph Varnum, Colonel of 
Massachusetts Troop of Horse, King Philip's War. 

Sixth in descent from Samuel Varnum, Major of Massa- 
chusetts Troop of Horse in Indian Wars. 

Ver Planck, William Gordon, 

Eighth in descent from John Hopkins of Waterbury, 
Connecticut, who was Sergeant in 1714, Ensign in 
1715, and Lieutenant in 1716. 

Wainwright, John Tillotson, 

Fifth in descent from Robert R. Livingston, Judge of 
Supreme Court of the Province of New-York. 

Wainwright, William Pratt, Jr., 

Fifth in descent from Robert R. Livingston, Judge of 
Supreme Court of the Province of New-York. 

Walker, Richard Henry, 

Seventh in descent from Private George Frink, who 
served in the French and Indian Wars, 1761. 



Sixth in descent from Major George Berry, who served 

in the French and Indian Wars, 1747. 
Sixth in descent from Captain Joseph Bean, who served 

in the French and Indian Wars, 1724. 
Sixth in descent from Sentinel William Mayberry, who 

served in the French and Indian Wars, 1747. 
Fourth in descent from Private Thomas Bolton, who 

served in the French and Indian Wars, 1747. 
Fifth in descent from Private George Berry, Jr., who 

served in the French and Indian Wars, 1749. 
Sixth in descent from Private John Barbour, who served 

in the French and Indian Wars, 1716. 
Fifth in descent from Private Hugh Barbour, who 

served in the French and Indian Wars, 1748. 

Wells, Thomas Lawrence, 

Eighth in descent from Major Thomas Lawrence, of 

Queens County, L. I., forces in 1689. 
Seventh in descent from Captain John Lawrence, of 

Newtown, L. I., Troop of Horse, in Leisler's time. 
Fifth in descent from Captain Thomas Lawrence, who 

commanded ship Tartar in French War in 1758. 

Whitehouse, James Norman de Rapelje, 

Seventh in descent from Joris Rapelje, Lieutenant in 

His Majesty's forces. 
Eighth in descent from Colonel Jeromus Remsen, 

1754-60. 

Wyeth, Richard Horner, 

Ninth in descent from John Wyeth, soldier in Cap- 
tain Gookin's Company, King Philip's War. 

Eighth in descent from Ebenezer Wyeth, soldier in 
Cambridge Contingent, French and Indian Wars, 



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MEMBERS ELECTED AT MEETING HELD 

JANUARY 6, 1893. 
Baker, Frank Leslie, 

Tenth in descent from John Upham, 1597—1681, of 
Weymouth, Mass.; he was Representative in 1636- 
1639. 

Ninth in descent from Lieutenant Phineas Upham, 
1635—76, of Maiden, Mass.; he was Lieutenant of 
the company headed by the brave Isaac Johnson of 
Roxbury, in the Great Swamp Fight, and after the 
Captain was killed received his mortal wounds of 
which he languished until October following. 

Banks, David, Jr., 

Ninth in descent from Richard Man, 2d, who served in 
the Indian Wars in Connecticut. 

Beekman, James William, 

Eighth in descent from the Hon. William Beekman, 
Lieutenant of the Burghers Corps, New Amsterdam, 
1652-68; Vice-Director on the South River, 1658- 
1664; Schout at Esopus, July 4, 1664. 

Clark, William Newton, 

Ninth in descent from Lieutenant Nicholas Stillwell; 
Commander of a Troop of Horse under the Dutch in 
1643, and under the English in Virginia in 1645. 

Farrar, George Dow, 

Eighth in descent from Jacob Farrar, killed by the In- 
dians in King Philip's War, August 22, 1675. 

Jones, Shipley, 

Ninth in descent from Benedict Arnold, first Governor 
of Rhode Island, 1657-60, 1662-63. 

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Lansdale, Phillip Van Horne, Lieutenant, U. S. 

Navy, 

Sixth in descent from Colonel Philip Van Horne, 
commanding a Regiment ot Militia, Province of 
New Jersey, i 771. 

Morris, Lewis, Assistant Surgeon, U. S. Navy, 

Seventh in descent from Lewis Morris, Chief Justice, 
Province of New-York and New Jersey, Governor 
of New Jersey, 1738. 

Morgan, James Henry, 

Eighth in descent from James Morgan, member of first 
Colonial Assembly of Connecticut. 

Seventh in descent from John Morgan, Indian Com- 
missioner to the Pequots, and Captain of the 
" Trained Band " for New London County. 

Oaklev, Henry Cruger, 

Sixth in descent from Hendrick Cuyler, Captain of the 
Albany Troop, 1685; Major, 1689. 

Fifth in descent from John Cruger, Mayor of New- 
York, 1739-44. 

Fourth in descent from Henry Cruger, Senior, Member 
of New-York Provincial Assembly, 1745—59 ; Mem- 
ber of King's Council till 1773. 

Reed, James Monroe, Jr., 

Ninth in descent from Captain Daniel Broadhead, an 
officer in the service of Charles IL, under Colonel Sir 
Richard Nicolls, 1 664 ; appointed by Governor Nicolls 
Commander-in-Chief of the Forces at Kingston, New- 
York, September 14, 1665; died while in command 
of the Ulster County Militia, 1667. 

Riker, John Lawrence, 

Eighth in descent from Major Thomas Lawrence, 
French and Indian Wars, New-York, 1689-90. 

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Roe, Francis Ashbury, Rear Admiral, U. S. Navy. 

Fourth in descent from John Roe, killed in Colonial 
service in the French and Indian Wars, 1755-56, 
near Lake Champlain. 

Stevens, Charles Ellis, LL. D., D. C. L., 

Tenth in descent from Hon. John Webster of Hartford, 
Conn; he was Representative in 1637; Magistrate, 
1639-55; Deputy Governor, 1655; Governor of 
Connecticut, 1656, 

Ninth in descent from Major John Mason of Mason's 
Island ; was an officer under Sir Thomas Fairfax in 
the Netherlands ; was Representative in the General 
Court of Massachusetts, 1635-36, and 1637-41 ; 
then Assistant to 1659; then Deputy Governor for 
eight years, and Commissioner in the New England 
Confederation 1647-56, 1654-5-6-9 and 1661 ; he 
was Commander-in-Chief of the New England 
Forces in the Pequot War, and finished the same in 
1637. 

Eighth in descent from Hon. William Pitkin, 1635- 
1724; was Representative annually from 1675-90, 
for Hartford, in the Colonial Assembly of Connec- 
ticut ; he was Commissioner for Connecticut in the 
New England Confederation ; he was elected Mem- 
ber of the Council 1692, and held that position till 
his death. 

Eighth in descent from Captain Caleb Stanley of Con- 
necticut; he was Representative in General Court; 
Sergeant, 1669; Assistant 1691, and Captain in the 
Connecticut Colonial Forces. 

Seventh in descent from Hon. William Pitkin, 1664- 
1723, of Hartford, Connecticut; he was in 1696 
elected Representative in the General Court of Con- 
necticut; and from 1697-1 723 was annually elected to 
the Council of the Colony; from 1702-1704, was 
Judge of County Court, and in 1712 became Chief 
Justice of the Supreme Court. 

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Seventh in descent from Lieutenant Nathanial Stevens, 
1661-1709, of Guilford, Connecticut; he was Lieu- 
tenant in the Colonial Forces. 

Seventh in descent from Captain Daniel White, of the 
Connecticut Colonial Forces. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Joseph Marsh, 1 705- 
1755, of Lebanon, Connecticut; he was Ensign and 
afterward Captain in the Colonial Forces of Con- 
necticut. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Nathaniel— Stevens of 
East Guilford, Connecticut ; he was a Captain in the 
Colonial Forces of Connecticut. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Thomas Pitkin of Bolton, 
Connecticut, 1700-66; Representative in the Gen- 
eral Court of Connecticut, 1755-56; commissioned 
Lieutenant, 1737, and Captain 1739, in the Colonial 
Forces of Connecticut. 

Wood, Marshall William, Captain and Assistant 
Surgeon, U. S. Army, 

Ninth in descent from Captain Edmund Greenleaf, 
1671, of Newbury, Massachusetts, who served under 
Captain Gerrish in 1644. 



MEMBERS ELECTED AT MEETING HELD 
JANUARY 20, 1893. 

AsTOR, John Jacob, 

Fourth in descent from General John Armstrong; 
he served as Colonel at Braddock's defeat, Penn- 
sylvania Provincial Forces; commanded expedi- 
tion at Kittanning, September 8, 1756, for which 
services the city of Philadelphia voted him a silver 

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medal; he served at Forts Loudon and Pitt, 1764, 
in the expedition against the Susquehannas, 1763, 
and commanded the Highlanders and Pennsyl- 
vania Troops in the expedition against Fort Du- 
quesne. 
Eighth in descent from Oloff Stevensen Van Cort- 
landt; in 1649 Colonel of the " City Train Band," 
and in 1655-64, the last Burgomaster of New 
Amsterdam under the Dutch, before the English 
conquest. 

Blunt, Stanhope English, Captain, Ordnance De- 
partment, U. S. A., 

Seventh in descent from Major Charles Frost, Mem- 
ber Provincial Council, New Hampshire ; in 1681 
Major of the Maine Regiment ; killed by Indians, 
1697. 

Eighth in descent from Sampson Sheafe, Sr. ; in 1698 
Counselor and Secretary of the Province, and 
Commissary of the New England Forces in the 
Expedition against Quebec, 171 1. 

Seventh in descent from Sampson Sheafe, Jr., Coun- 
selor from 1740 to 1761. 

Eighth in descent from Colonel Shadrach Walton, 
Ensign in the Provincial Forces of New Hamp- 
shire, 1691 ; Colonel at the Capture of Port Royal 
in 1710; Counselor, 1716. 

Bradford, Thomas Hewson, M. D., 

Fifth in descent from Colonel William Bradford, 
Lieutenant Company No. 4, Philadelphia Asso- 
ciators, 1747; Captain, 1756. 

Butler, Henry Percival, 

Eighth in descent from Captain Samuel Green, En- 
sign in King Philip's War ; commissioned officer 
Colonial Forces of Massachusetts, 1 660-1 701; 
Captain, 1689. 

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Chandler, Walter, 

Eighth in descent from Job Chandler, Councilor of 
State, and Receiver-General of the Province of 
Maryland, 1651-56. 

Seventh in descent from Colonel William Chandler, 
commanding the foot forces of Charles Co., 1681. 

Fourth in descent from Major and Hon. John 
Rogers, Member of the Conventions of the Prov- 
ince of Maryland, 1774-75, and in the latter year 
Major of the Lower Battalion of Prince George Co. 

Eighth in descent from Jasper Crane, one of the 
four Magistrates of the New Haven Colony, 1658, 
and Deputy to the General Assembly of New 
Jersey, 1671-75. 

Earle, Ferdinand Pinney, Brigadier-General and 
Chief of Artillery, S. N. Y., 

Eighth in descent from Dr. Johannes de La Mon- 
tagne, Chief in Military Command Manhattan 
Island, 1640-45, with title of General; Member 
of Council under Governor Kieft and Governor 
Stuyvesant; Vice-Director Fort Orange, August 
22, 1656. 

Eighth in descent from Captain John Bissell, Wind- 
sor, Conn., Troop of Horse, King Pliilip's War. 

Eighth in descent from William Phelps, Member of 
the first Court held in Connecticut, 1636. 

Seventh in descent from Lieutenant Timothy Phelps, 
Windsor, Conn., Company, Queen Anne's War. 

Fifth in descent from Captain Benjamin Pinney, 
Windsor, Conn., Troop, French and Indian Wars, 
Mays, 1755. 

Edwards, Pierrepont, 

Sixth in descent from the Rev. Timothy Edw^ards, 
B. A., and M. A., Harvard, July 4, 1691 ; Chap- 
Iain Colonial Forces of Connecticut, 17 11. 

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Eighth in descent from Captain Thomas Willett, 
Captain of MiUtia, 1648; first EngUsh Mayor of 
New- York city, 1665. 

Gillespie, George Cuthbert, 

Seventh in descent from Samuel Cole, 2d, Member 
of Assembly, Province of New Jersey, 172 1. 

Eighth in descent from Samuel Cole, ist, Member 
of Assembly, Province of New Jersey, 1683-85. 

Harriman, William Edward, 

Seventh in descent from Captain Arent Schuyler, 
who commanded a Company of Militia in the 
Mohawk Valley, 1693-96. 

Hawkes, E. McDougall, 

Fifth in descent from General Alexander McDougall, 
who commanded the armed vessels Tiger and 
Barri/igton sailing out of New-York under letters 
of marque, French War, 1756. 

Herman, John Armstrong, 

Fifth in descent from Colonel John Armstrong, 
Colonel at the expedition against Fort Duquesne; 
at Braddock's defeat. Forts Loudon and Pitt, 
1764; for his services in the Kittanning Expedi- 
tion he received a silver medal from the city of 
Philadelphia. 

HoFF, John Van Rensselaer, Major, Medical De- 
partment, U. S. A., 

Fifth in descent from Lieutenant Kiliaen Van Rens- 
selaer, Provincial Forces of New-York, November 
305 1743- 
Hopkinson, Edward, 

Fifth in descent from Thomas Hopkinson, Master 
of the Rolls, 1736-41; Judge of the Admiralty, 
Philadelphia; Member of the Council, Province 
of Pennsylvania, 1747. 

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HoRNOR, William Macpherson, 

Fifth in descent from Captain John Macpherson, 
Commander of the privateer Brifaniiia of Phila- 
delphia; French War, 1757; also in Spanish War, 
1762; he was made a Burgess of Edinburgh, his 
birthplace, in 1764, in honor of his distinguished 
services in the West Indies. 

Howard, William Colman, 

Fifth in descent from Colonel Moses Titcomb, who 
commanded Titcomb's Battery at the Siege of 
Louisburg ; commanded the right wing of General 
Sir William Johnson's army at the defeat of Baron 
Dreskau, and was killed at the Battle of Lake 
George, September 8, 1755. 

Howes, Frederic Reuben, 

Seventh in descent from Jeremiah Howes, Town 
Councilor of War in 1676, Dennis, Mass. 

Lewis, William Fisher, 

Sixth in descent from Evan Lewis, Member of the 
Provincial Assembly of Pennsylvania, 1706, 1707, 
1708, 1714, and 1719. 

Lord, Charles Elliot, 

Sixth in descent from Lieutenant Colonel Simon 
Lathrop, who commanded one of the Connecticut 
regiments in the expedition against Annapolis and 
Louisburg. 

Metcalf, James Betts, 

Fourth in descent from Selah Benton, First Sergeant 
of the 7th Company of the ist Regiment of Con- 
necticut Infantry in the French and Indian Wars, 
1761-63. 

Mifflin, James, 

Sixth in descent from Judge John Mifflin, Member 
of the Privy Council of Pennsylvania in 1757. 



Montgomery, Thomas Harrison, 

Fifth in descent from Colonel Thomas White, Colo- 
nial Forces of Maryland, 1740-50. 

Sixth in descent from Hon. Daniel Dulaney, 1686- 
1753, Attorney-General, Judge Admiralty Court, 
Commissary-General; Member of Council, Prov- 
ince of Maryland. 

Norwood, Lewis Morris, 

Seventh in descent from Lewis Morris, Chief Jus- 
tice, Province of New-York, 1715, and first Gov- 
ernor of the Province of New Jersey, 1738. 

Paul, John Rodman, 

Sixth in descent from John Rodman, for many years 
a Member of the Provincial Assembly of New 
Jersey, and August 27, 1738, was appointed one 
of His Majesty's Council, which office he held for 
eighteen years. 

Shippen, Edward, Medical Director, U. S. N., Ret'd, 

Sixth in descent from Colonel Joseph Shippen, Colo- 
nial Forces of Pennsylvania, Fort Duquesne Ex- 
pedition. 

Spofford, Paul Nelson, 

Sixth in descent from Captain John Spofford, com- 
mission in Massachusetts Provincial Forces, dated 
May 8, 172 1. 

Fifth in descent from Captain Abner Spofford, com- 
mission in Massachusetts Provincial Forces, dated 
November 22, 1743. 

Fifth in descent from Colonel Daniel Spofford, 
commissions in Massachusetts Provincial Forces; 
Ensign, dated 1757 ; Captain, 1764; Major, 1774; 
Colonel 7th Massachusetts Regiment, 1775. 

Tenth in descent from Captain Edmund Greenleaf, 
Massachusetts Provincial Forces; Lieutenant, 
1642; Captain, 1645. 

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Seventh in descent from Stephen Mighill, who served 

in King Philip's War. 
Fifth in descent from Deacon Stephen Mighill, 

Clerk of Captain Pearson's Troop of Horse, 1757. 
Seventh in descent from John Hopkinson, who 

served in King Philip's War, in Captain Brockle- 

bank's Company. 

Stevenson, William Paxton, 

Fifth in descent from Captain Robert McPherson, 
Third Battalion, Colonial Forces of Pennsylvania, 
May 10, 1758. 

TOWNSEND, RUFUS M., 

Ninth in descent from Captain Miles Standish of 
Plymouth Colony. 

Walbridge, Thomas Chester, 

Sixth in descent from Major John Chester, Colonial 
Forces of Connecticut; Ensign, 1689; Captain, 
1698; "Serjeant Major of Hartford Countie," 
October 8, 1702; Deputy Governor, 1701-11. 

Wayne, William, Major, N. G. P., 

Fifth in descent from Captain Isaac Wayne, Pro- 
vincial Forces of Pennsylvania, Indian War, 1756. 

Welles, Benjamin, 

Eighth in descent from Governor Thomas Welles, 
first Treasurer of the Colony of Connecticut, 1639; 
Secretary of State, 1643; Governor, 1655. 



MEMBERS ELECTED AT MEETING HELD 
FEBRUARY 3, 1893. 

Belknap, Robert Lenox, 

Fourth in descent from Captain Samuel Belknap, 
Captain of the Massachusetts Provincial Forces. 

Church, Richard, 

Sixth in descent from Colonel Johannes Schuyler, 
New-York Provincial Forces, French and Indian 
Wars. 

Seventh in descent from Captain Philip Pieterse 
Schuyler, New-York Provincial Forces, 1667. 

Clarkson, Banyer, 

Seventh in descent from Matthew Clarkson, Secre- 
tary of the Province of New-York, 1690 to his 
death in 1702. 

Sixth in descent from David Clarkson, Member of 
the Assembly, Province of New-York, 1739 to his 
death in 1751. 

Delafield, Joseph Livingston, 

Eighth in descent from Robert Livingston, First 
Lord of the Manor of Livingston ; Member of 
the Council, Colony of New-York, 1698-1701; 
Member of the Colonial Assembly, 1709-11. 

Delafield, Maturin Livingston, 

Eighth in descent from Robert Livingston, First 
Lord of tlie Manor of Livingston; Member of 
the Council, Colony of New- York, 1698-1701; 
Member of the Colonial Assembly, 1 709-11. 

Jackson, Oswald, 

Fifth in descent from Benjamin Chew, His Majesty's 
Council, Province of Pennsylvania, 1755; Com- 



missioner of Defense of Philadelphia, 1761; At- 
torney-General, 1755; Speaker of the Assembly, 
1756; Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1774. 

Hamersley, James Hooker, 

Fifth in descent from William Hamersley, an officer 
in the British Navy, stationed at New- York, 1716. 

Fifth in descent from Joseph Reade, Member of 
Provincial Council of New- York, 1764. 

Sixth in descent from Judge Thomas Gordon, one 
of His Majesty's Council, Province East Jersey; 
Deputy Secretary, 1692 ; Attorney-General, 1692 ; 
Receiver-General and Treasurer, 1710-19; and 
one of the Lords Proprietors. 

Seventh in descent from Robert Livingston; Mem- 
ber and Speaker of the New-York Provincial As- 
sembly, 1718-25; Founder of Livingston Manor. 

Miller, John Bleecker, 

Ninth in descent from Captain Philip Pieterse 
Schuyler, New- York Provincial Forces, 1667. 

Eighth in descent from Rip Van Dam, Member of 
New-York Provincial Assembly, 1699; Member 
of His Majesty's Council thirty years; and Gov- 
ernor of the Province, July i, 1731. 

Eighth in descent from Major Abraham Staats, 
New- York Provincial Forces ; Captain of Foot, 
October 19, 1690. 

Seventh in descent from Captain Jochim' Staats, 
New-York Provincial Forces; Ensign, March 19, 
1685; Captain, December 28, 1689; Commis- 
sioner of Indian Affairs, October 19, 1690 ; served 
in Canada Expedition, 1688. 

Roe, Fayette Washington, Captain 3d Infantry, 
U. S. A. 

Fifth in descent from John Roe; killed in French 
and Indian War, near Lake George, N. Y., 
1750-56- 



Sanger, William Gary, 

Eighth in descent from Captain Richard Betts, 
Member of New-York Provincial Assembly, held 
at Hempstead, L. I., 1665; "High Sheriff of 
Yorkshire upon Long Island," October 30, 1678- 
1681. 

Schuyler, John, 

Sixth in descent from Colonel Johannes Schuyler, 
New- York Provincial Forces, French and Indian 
Wars. 

Seventh in descent from Captain Philip Pieterse 
Schuyler, New-York Provincial Forces, 1667. 

SCHERMERHORN, ChARLES AUGUSTUS, 

Seventh in descent from Symon Schermerhorn, who, 
at the destruction of Schenectady by the French 
and Indians, February 8, 1690, though wounded, 
rode to Albany to give the alarm. 

Strong, Joseph Montgomery, Jr., 

Seventh in descent from Robert Livingston, First 
Lord of the Manor of Livingston; Member and 
Speaker of New-York Prcwincial Assembly, 17 18- 
1725, and Secretary for Indian Affairs. 

Sixth in descent from Philip Livingston, Secretary 
for Indian Affairs, Province of New- York, 1721- 
1749. 

Fourth in descent from Philip Livingston, Secretary 
to Sir Henry Moore, last English Governor of the 
Province of New-York. 

Watmough, James H., Pay Director, U. S. N., 

Fourth in descent from Captain Edmand Watmough, 
British Army ; served in French and Indian Wars, 
1746-70. 

Fifth in descent from Colonel Daniel Cox, Judge of 
the Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1739. 



Seventh in descent from Major Simon Willard, Pro- 
vincial Forces of Massachusetts; served in the 
early Indian Wars. 

Winter, Francis Anderson, First Lieutenant and 
Assistant Surgeon, U. S. A., 

Seventh in descent from John Alden, the Pilgrim; 
served with Captain Miles Standish in the Indian 
warfare, and was a member of the Council of War 
from Duxbury, Plymouth Colony, 1675-76. 

additional supplemental descent. 
Livingston, Philip L., 

Also Eighth hi descent fnnn Filyp Pieterse Van Schuy- 
ler, Captain in New- York Provincial Forces in 
1667. 



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MEMBERS ELECTED FEBRUARY 17, 1893. 

Bishop, Cortlandt Field, 

Seventh in descent from Colonel Abraham de Peyster, commanding the 
Mihtia of New- York City, circa 1700. 

Chapman, Thomas Brownell, 

Seventh in descent from Colonel Benjamin Church, Mass. Colonial Forces, 

Kmg Philip's War. 
Tenth in descent from John Alden, the Pilgrim ; Member Town Council of 

War. 
Eighth in descentfrom Robert Chapman, served under Lieutenant Lion Gar- 

diner, Pequot War. 

Chenoweth, Alexander Crawford, 

Fifth in descent from Colonel Wm. Crawford, Colonial Forces, Virginia; En- 
sign.. i755; served at Fort Duquesne under Washington; served in the 
Pontiac War, and in Lord Dunmore's Indian War; killed by the Delaware 
Indians, 1782. 

Seventh in descent from William Cromwell, Member Legislative Council of 
Maryland under Lord Baltimore. 

Draper, Charles Albert, 

Seventh in descent from James Draper (2d), a soldier in King Philip's War 
Sixth in descent from Captain James Draper (3d), Captain Trained Bands 
of Dedham, Mass. 

Endicott, Robert, 

Ninth in descent from John Endicott, 1588-1655, Governor of Massachusetts 
Bay Colony. 

Erving, William Van Rensselaer, 

Sixth in descent from William Shirley, 1693-1771, Lieutenant-Genera!, Eng- 
lish Army: Commander-in-chief of all the forces in British North America 
1755; Governor of Massachusetts, 1741-45. ' 

Greene, Richard Henry, 

Seventh in descent from Captain Samuel Marshall, killed at the " Swamo 

Fight," King Philip's War. 
Sixth in descent from Lieutenant Job Winslow, in command of Trained 

Band, Freetown, Mass., 1702: served in the fight at Swansea, 1675. 
Eighth in descent from Lieutenant David Wilton, served in King Philip's 

War, Colonial Forces of Conn. 
Eighth in descent from Thomas Hurlbert, Clerk of the Trained Band, 1640: 

served under Lieutenant Lion Gardiner in the Pequot War. 

Lord, Nathan Holcomb, 

Sixth in descent from Benjamin Lord, 1623-78, Member from Saybrook to 
the General Court at Hartford, Conn., for several years. 

Pond, Nicholas Misplee, 

Eighth in descent from Colonel Sir Charles Hobby, commanding Mass. 
Regiment at Port Royal, 1711. 

Pruvn, John Van Schaick Lansing, 

Fifth in descent from David Groesbeck, Member Captain Rooseboom's 

Co., Albany, 1715. 
Sixth in descent from Samuel Prtiyn, Member Captain Rooseboom's Co. 

Albany, 1715. ' 

Ninth in descent from Brant Arentse Van Slichtenhorsh, Director and Chief 

Magistrate of the Colony of Rensselaerwyck, 1646-48. 

Suydam, Walter Lispenard, 

Eighth in descent from Captain John Underbill, leader of the Dutch troops 
in their Indian wars, 1644-5. Served in the Pequot War. 



ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL DESCENTS PASSED. 

Chandler, Walter, 

Sixth in descent from Thomas Lee, Governor of the Province of Virginia, 
1747- 
Gallatin, Rolaz Horacr, 

Fourth in descent from Elbridge Gerry, Representative from Marblehead, 
General Court Mass., 1772-3 ; Member Provincial Congress, 1774-5. 

Eighth in descent from James Townsend, Deputy Surveyor-General of the 
Province of New- York, 1710. 

Ninth in descent from Colonel Job Almy, Deputy from Warwick to the Co- 
lonial Assembly of Rhode Island, 1670-72 ; Commissioner to treat with the 
Indian sachems, May 7, 1673. 

IsHAM, Charles, 

Fifth in descent from John Isham, Sergeant Provincial Forces of Conn., 

1758-62; served in the Havannah Expedition. 
Ninth in descent from Lieutenant Samuel Smith, Provincial Forces of Mass., 

1661-78. 
Seventh in descent from Nathaniel Foote (2d), Quartermaster in the " Falls 

Fight," King Philip's War, under Captain Turner. 
Seventh in descent from Joseph Chamberlain, served in the " Falls Fight," 

King Philip's War, under Captain Turner. 



MEMBERS SOCIETY COLONIAL WARS IN THE STATE OF 
PENNSYLVANIA, ELECTED FEBRUARY, 1893. 

Edwin North Benson, 

Fourth in descent from Roger North, Lieutenant Philadelphia Associators, 
1748. 

Charles Henry Jones, 

Eighth in descent from Colonel Thomas Willett, Member King's Council, 
Province of New- York, 1690-98; Judge, Queens Co , 1702-10. 

James Large, 

Seventh in descent from Nicholas Wain ; came to America with William 
Penn, 1682; Member from Bucks Co. of the first Assembly held in Phila- 
delphia, 1683, also in 1687 and 1695; Member from Philadelphia, 1701-2, 
'3, '4, and '11. 

William Mifflin, 

Seventh in descent from John Mifflin, Commissioner of Defense for Province 
of Pennsylvania, 1745; Member Privy Council and Member of the Indian 
Conference at Easton, 1757. 



ADDITIONAL SUPPLEMENTAL. 

Thomas Chester Walbridge, 

Eighth in descent from Governor Thomas Welles of Conn., 1655-8-9. 

Seventh in descent from Captain John Chester, Colonial Forces of Conn., 
May 12, 1677; Deputy for Wethersfield, 1678-89. 

Fifth in descent from Colonel John Chester, Colonial Forces of Conn. ; En- 
sign, May 14, 1724 ; Colonel, 1756; Deputy from Wethersfield for twenty- 
five years ; "Assistant " for eighteen years. 

Sixth in descent from Captain Samuel Talcott, Provincial Forces of Conn.; 
Lieutenant, 1677; Captain, 1681 ; Deputy, 1669-84 ; "Assistant," 1685, 
'87, '89, and '91 ; Secretary, 1684 ; Auditor, 1684-86. 

Total Membership February 18, 1893 : 180. 



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